Windows restart - will PC3000 power off ATAx?

[deftrue]

Hello guys,

Just that quick question. I need to restart the PC-3000 machine, and I have a drive which I don't want to switch off. How to restart Windows, avoiding voltage drops on PC-3000 board?

Cheers

[dmarques]

Basically you can't on a direct way, because pc3k power is supplied from the PSU.

[deftrue]

Sadly, I'm not sure that on a regular reset current is actually cut off of the PSU... but PC-3000 powers off the drives.

Thanks

[ccc]

Hi
I don't have UDMA but, as far as I know, you have a setting in options menu to not power off drives on program close....PCI have it so I thinK UDMA should have it too...

Rgds

[deftrue]

Yes, I know about do not powering the drives on program close, it's about a Windows restart... but as I checked, it powers them off.

[dick]

Next time you could prepare an external source power supply and control it manually though i'm not sure if the drive you are working with will remain correctly powered during a reboot when it is logically disconnected. That would depend on the drive model.

[dmarques]

You can try connecting your pc3k power to an external PSU and try to restart to check what happens.

[porthas]

There is no way to do it unless you use an external power source. I know that you can restart PC3000 without cutting of power by closing PC3000 force-closing the task from task manager. It will keep drives powered on.

[deftrue]

I know that you can restart PC3000 without cutting of power by closing PC3000 force-closing the task from task manager. It will keep drives powered on.

There's no need to do that - there's an option you can check 'Keep drives powered on on exit', or similar.