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Subject: Re: May I have my harddisk shut off while my computer is on?
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Date: 23 May 91 04:40:48 GMT
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On a similar note:  I have an external hard drive attached to my GVP
Series II HC 8 controller on an A2000HD.  Upon initial power up, the
partitions on this disk are not recognized.  Understandable, since
they are on a separate power supply.  I have the computer andtthe external
hard drive on a common power switch and would prefer to be able to start
everything up with one switch.  Is there a way to:

   a)  Make the A2000 wait 10 seconds before starting autoconfig, while
       the external devices come up to speed?

   b)  or, Neatly have these partitions added after the startup sequence is
       over?

Here is what I am currently doing (god-aweful ugly, but works) as a work
around so my machine always boots automatically recognizing all scsi
devices.  I wrote a program called test-and-reset and added to to my 
startup sequence.  This program searches the DOS device list for the volume
named as a command line argument.  If it finds it, then it does nothing
more.  If not, then we get ugly.  That is, pause for 10 seconds and then
assert a soft reset.  This is easier than doing the 3-fingered salute
myself.  

Certainly there has to be a better way.

Thanks in advance,

--Dennis

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 Dennis Brueni				INTERNET:  brueni@csgrad.cs.vt.edu