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Certain SCSI disk drives are configured to send a kind of reset message
("unit attention") to the initiator (i.e. the computer) after power-on. In such a case,
TOS will not be able to boot from the drive. Simple, but annoying workaround:
Switch on the system, wait until TOS has contacted the hard disk, _then_ reset the
computer and have it try again. Much better workaround: Run <nop>SlickBoot
just once, and boot from the hard disk directly.

The trick is to tell the SCSI drive to disable the reset message after power-on.
<nop>SlickBoot does this for the following drive types:
   * Quantum P40S, P80S, P105S
   * Seagate ST157N, ST296N, ST1096N

<nop>SlickBoot is not required for TOS 2.06 and 3.06, since those TOS versions
can boot from disks even if they send "Unit Attention" messages.

Download <nop>SlickBoot from [[http://www.clausbrod.de/download/atari/slickboo.zoo][here]].


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