brady@swift.cs.tcd.ie (05/30/91)
Net friends, here is a question about using two hard disks, one standard Apple HD, the other a WREN III initialised with Silverlining. 5.22. It seems that no matter what we set the Startup Disk to, the Mac will always choose the Apple-initialised disk over the Silverlining-initialised one Has anyone got a fix on this please? Thanks, in advance. Mike Brady brady@cs.tcd.ie
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (06/01/91)
In article <1991May30.100257.7941@swift.cs.tcd.ie> brady@swift.cs.tcd.ie writes: >Net friends, here is a question about using two hard disks, one standard >Apple HD, the other a WREN III initialised with Silverlining. 5.22. >It seems that no matter what we set the Startup Disk to, the Mac will >always choose the Apple-initialised disk over the Silverlining-initialised one >Has anyone got a fix on this please? I believe this is the 'unit attention' problem. Workarounds are to zap the signature bytes on the Apple disk (a real pain), or to cut the SCSI reset line (bad idea-- makes Startup Device work, but if the drive gets hung, you have to cycle its power). Anyone know how to turn off the Unit Attention on a WREN (III or IV)? -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.