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From: price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price)
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Subject: Re: Making my mac wait for my hd to get up to speed?
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Date: 21 Jun 91 00:00:09 GMT
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In article <12145@hub.ucsb.edu>, 6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT Ug" Lee) writes:
>i remember hearing about an init that would make my computer wait to
>boot until my slow (CMS 20 meg) hard drive was up to speed. 

I see this question a lot.  I must be doing something terribly wrong, since 
I've never had to wait for my hard drive to spin up before turning on my 
Mac.  I have a mac+ with 4Meg, a Syquest drive, and systems 6.0.5 and 7.0, 
depending on which cartridge I'm using.  The Syquest drive is the boot 
drive.

To anyone who knows:  why do some hard drives need to come up to speed 
before the mac, and others not?

           John Price * * * * price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu
           Where there is no solution, there is no problem.