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From: phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Disk spunup/not mounting ?
Message-ID: <4879@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 21 Sep 89 19:20:35 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Hi everyone,

Well, I now have an INIT written that will spinup a DEC disk drive on a mac by
sending the SCSI START command to the drive, then it waits 4 seconds for the
drive to spin up....

A problem though....Most of the time, the Finder will not mount the drive..It
does some times and if I reboot with the drive still spun up, it always does.

I know the 4-seconds is enough for the drive to complete spinning up, actually
about 13 other inits run after mine, so it has been spun up over 10 seconds by
the time the Finder loads.....

Any ideas why it doesn't get mounted by the Finder?
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