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From: 6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT Ug" Lee)
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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 08:28:47 GMT
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In article <0094A6A8.B6394460@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> price@uclapp.physics.
ucla.edu (John Price) writes:

>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?

no no no...

i have a iisi (as the rest of my post pointed out), that has an
INTERNAL 40 meg HD.  What happens is that THAT HD boots before my 20
meg is up to speed and gets mounted.

on a mac+, your ONLY scsi device is your hard drive. the computer will
sit there with a flashing disk icon until a drive comes on line (i.e.
your hd spins up), at which point the smiling mac will appear.

i'm not trying to boot from the 20 meg, i just want it to be mounted
when i get to my desktop. so again, i need an init or something that
will make my computer wait to start starting up, or is this possible?
(does the system check for scsi devices before inits? what if i use
the force mount init, which will mount all available devices at
startup (but my drive still wouldn't be available--still spinning up,
so i need the delay thing still))

confused? me too.. :}

				--Darryl
				  6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu