Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!kloppen
From: kloppen@gmdzi.UUCP (Jelske Kloppenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Waiting for HD to boot
Message-ID: <3085@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 90 18:27:52 GMT
References: <510@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1660@mwca.UUCP>
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany
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bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) writes:


>Berkeley MicroSystems has a boot sector on their diskette which keeps trying
>the hard disk until it's ready - no reboots, and it boots immediately upon
>the hard disk being up to speed. Shouldn't be too hard for any of you other
>Wiz's to do the same thing...

Yes, I have made such a boot sector for my st.
But consider the following: not all hard disks spin up when disturbed
with 'test unit ready'. There are even different SH204's!
With those sensible hard disks duck31 or coldstart.acc and such things
dont work either.
Regards
j.k. (Jelske Kloppenburg / GMD)
     kloppen@gmdzi.UUCP