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From: steve@cpdaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Disk spunup/not mounting ?
Message-ID: <519@cpdaux.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 15:19:05 GMT
References: <4879@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: cpdaux!steve@apple.com (Steve Lemke)
Organization: Computer Products Design, Santa Clara, CA
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In article <4879@shlump.nac.dec.com> phil@vaxphw.enet.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
}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?

I believe the drive must be "on" and "ready" when the machine turns on (or
within a few seconds thereafter), as in BEFORE a drive starts to boot.
Perhaps someone can verify this.  Are you able to mount it from the control
panel from "SCSI" or "SCSI Probe"?  If so, you may be interested in a program
called "Mounter" or something like that that can be "Set Startup..." to and
it will mount any ready drives.  I'm not sure where to get it, though.
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