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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy 6000 floppy
Keywords: init
Message-ID: <5656@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 14:29:23 GMT
References: <144@rwing.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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In article <144@rwing.UUCP> nanook@rwing.UUCP (Robert Dinse) writes:
:
:     Further investigation:
:
:     Typing "drive" gives nowait and seekrate=118. Setting the drive to
:wait and seekrate=0 makes it work again, but it gets reset to these values
:at each boot.
:
:     The "drive" command appears to write /xenix, but there is no reference
:to either "drive" or /xenix in init. From this I must assume there is some
:other method of setting these values (or inadvertentaly randomizing them?)


When Xenix is originally installed on the Tandy 6K/16 systems it
asks if you are running a Model II.  If you answer yes it sets
the drive seek rates differently since the Model II drives ran
continuously rather than only while being used.  You could
probably look into the initialization code on the boot floppy to
determine what is happening and do the same thing after the
system is installed.

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