Hi, Apparently they are working on my problem, I had a few mails since. Cyril Lance Trickey wrote: > From: Lance Trickey <tricky@...> > > I'd be surprised if you get this "fixed". Whether it worked before or not is irrelevant. > What you described would be fixable if SCSI were intended to be Hot swapable. > > SCSI is not ordinarily hot swapable. > > over the years I've had some SCSI host adapters that would tolerate this and some that wouldn't. > > re-thinking your termination may help. or try a different SCSI host card. > > good luck > > logic-users@onelist.com wrote:______________________________________________________________________ _________ > > > > > Message: 19 > > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:19:03 +0200 > > From: Cyril BLANC <blanc.cyril@...> > > Subject: WARNING !!!! [LAM] PROBLEMS WITH G4/400 and FORMAC SCSI PRORAID I CARD > > > > Hello all, > > > > This mail is to inform you that there are problems with FORMAC > > PRORAID I SCSI card with the G4/400. > > > > SCSI Chain : G4/400 ==> Quantum 540MB Akai formated ==> YAMAHA CDRW > > 4416 ==> AKAI S2000 SAMPLER > > > > Sympthoms : > > > > Your G4 would not start if the Akai formated HD is not powered up > > Your G4 will freeze if the Akai formatedd HD is powered down > > > > The same SCSI chain was working very well with my PowerBook Wall > > street G3. > > > > It is a month I am talking to FORMAC, but they do not care a damm > > about my problem, there answer is : leave your HD powered on all the > > time. > > > > Before, with my G3, I was just powering on my HD, loading my sampler > > and turn it off to avoid fan noises in my recordings. > > > > I have put Formac on copy to this mail so they have the right to > > answer, if they want to sell us some cards they have to fix this > > problem. > > > > May be after this mail they will move ....... as we are more than 10 > > 000 persons on those list. > > > > Cyril Blanc > > > > PS Did anybody had other problems with this card ? > > Is anybody having experience of Akai formad HD with an Adaptec > > card ? > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ > >