--- Fluxstringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I always forgot to turn on my external SCSI CD, >and I need to restart >the Mac after I turned on the external SCSI CD. >Is there a way to >mount the CD without restarting the Mac? > >Pat
It's been warned that turning on external SCSI devices can send a power surge through the chain damaging a component. My advice: Get yourself a stack of post-it notes and put one on the monitor with the words,
First off in ten years of running SCSI chains and some intense experience at that i have never ever heard this warning nor ever had a SCSI device fail other than a hard drive that just got plain worn out.
I am not saying it cannot happen. But i would not worry about a " power surge " other than one that comes when you forget to shut off the power strip during a thunderstorm.
I concur. If you don't turn it on it's pretty much useless. You have to turn it on sometime. SCSI is a bus so there is no inherent MASTER machine, it doesn't matter if you turn one on before another. And there is no such thing as turning them on at the same time. Even if they are all connected to a power strip and you turn them on that way some power supplies will start up slower than others.
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