Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro.com!george
From: george@electro.com (George Reimer)
Subject: Re: booting from hard disk
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.172039.1860@electro.com>
Reply-To: george@electro.UUCP (George Reimer)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
References: <1991Mar06.205849.23089@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 17:20:39 GMT

In article <1991Mar06.205849.23089@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> thaanuj@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (John Thaanum) writes:
>I just got my syquest w/advantage+ system hooked up and running well.  I
>have one small problem, though.  It **never** boots correctly the first time.
>After a long wait, I get on of the following:
>
>   floppy turned on:  desktop with just a: and b: icons
>   floppy turned off: blank desktop with just a menu bar 
>
>When I hit reset, it boots from c: just fine and desktop appears exactly
>the way I want it.
>

	On our supra system we must turn on the hard drive first and let it 
	come up to speed ( 1-2 seconds ) before energizing the ST. Other wise
	if the ST checks it's hard disk port and finds nothing there .

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