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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: booting from hard disk
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.171719.2280@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 22:17:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar06.205849.23089@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <91066.115758ZUR072@DMSWWU1C.BITNET>
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In article <91066.115758ZUR072@DMSWWU1C.BITNET>, ZUR072@DMSWWU1C.BITNET (Ulrich Kuehn) writes:
>The problems with booting from harddisk after power-on have their origin
>in SCSI (i suppose, youre using a SCSI-HD): some newer drives want to get
>a reset-signal after power-up, so when you turn on your Atari, it cant read
>the HDs rootsector, but after a reset it does well. Ive got that problem, too,
>with my ST157N, but I can stand it.

Jeez, I thought everyone was doing this the same way I am.  Here is a solution
for this problem, and it allows you (matter of fact, requires) to turn on 
both computer and hard disk at the same time.  Get a copy of both sleep.prg
and coldboot.tos (the ICD one).  Format a blank disk, create an auto folder 
and put sleep in first, then coldboot.  Change the name of sleep.prg to 
sleep0x.prg, where x is roughly the time it takes for your disk to spin up
(try about 5 secs).  Then reboot your computer.  Sleep will hold for x seconds,
then continue, thus running coldboot and rebooting your machine once (as opposed
to many times with just coldboot).  You should experiment with the seconds 
value.  Then just always use this disk when you boot with your hard disk.  
The disk is a handy place to put a backup of your FAT, or any programs that 
need to run from drive A.  You can also install the "protect" bootsector 
using VKILLER, and automatically protect your machine from viruses.
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