Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Optical Disks-Init Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 02:40:12 GMT References: <1991Mar7.135808.13811@wam.umd.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: erick.gac.edu In-reply-to: charlie@wam.umd.edu's message of 7 Mar 91 13:58:08 GMTLines: 24 In article <1991Mar7.135808.13811@wam.umd.edu> charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) writes: One question--is there any way to quickly initialize an OD without the "insert and wait for automount". It seems that the disk must spin up and down a half dozen times before the system (2.0) realizes that it can't read it and it must be initialized. Anyone else had this experience? You should be able to do 'disk -i /dev/rod0a' (or maybe /dev/od0a) and it should prompt you for the disk, and all. I think. Once a disk is initialized I like the way 2.0 handles it (very transparent) but I don't see provisions for mounting several disks at one time. Is this correct or did I miss something. 2.0 no longer supports multiple mounted disks in the WorkspaceManager. You can still mount multiple disks, but you have to head for Unix and use mount to do it. Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."