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From: jeroen@pluto.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Waiting for HD to boot
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Date: 16 Jul 90 09:48:59 GMT
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In article <3085@gmdzi.UUCP>, kloppen@gmdzi.UUCP (Jelske Kloppenburg) writes:
|>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
                

It *WOULD* be nice if you'd put this boot sector in comp.binaries.atari.st,
so the Atari community would greatly benefit from it. Speaking for myself,
I would be happy to use it - and I suspect many others would too.

I'd write the darn thing myself, if only I knew how to poll a HD on readiness.
Does anyone out there want to tell me all about that? Thanx.

	"Talking about Math can almost be as satisfying as the real thing,
	 and not half so risky."
				cf. 'The Bluffer's Guide to Bluffing'