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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: CMS60 drives
Message-ID: <32639@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Jun 89 22:03:38 GMT
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pnet01!pro-beagle!mmunz@nosc.mil writes:
>Network Comment: to #8953 by pnet01!crash!apple.com!mattd
>
> Of course, the thermometer when starting up GS/OS isn't accurate anyway.
> Depending on what's on the disk, the startup can be done when the thermometer
> is only half-way done, or it continues on even after the thermometer fills..
> and we're talking several seconds (10 or more).
>
You're just mad because I hit you with that Koosh ball.

Of course it's not accurate, if you mean always accurate every time.  It's a
measure of how long it took to boot *last* time.  If you change your boot
process often (adding/deleting DAs or setup files or FSTs), the thermometer
is not going to be right.  Neither will it be right if the boot disk is write-
protected so it can't update the guess.

It does work better on 5.0 - going into a CDA menu or the text screen doesn't
cause the bar to instantly fill, and several P8-related bugs were fixed.

> And then, if you happen to go into the control panel during bootup, the
> thermometer just fills up instantly.
>
> That, along with the time it takes to load (even on my harddrive) keep me
> from using it on a regular basis.  Now if the OS would be built-into the
> ROMs.. then there might be hope.

"Keep me from using it" I suppose means storing $5254 into the auxtype of
Start.GS.OS, which currently causes the boot process to use only the text
screen.  That's not guaranteed, y'know, but is widely circulated.  I use it
all the time and rarely have problems.  I had one odd configuration once which
caused it to stop before the end of the bar and sit there for a while, but I
just incremented the auxtype by one and it worked just fine.



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