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From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Making my mac wait for my hd to get up to speed?
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Date: 21 Jun 91 20:11:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jun21.163417.24604@MDI.COM> jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) writes, among other things:

>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'm really not trying to flame the originator, but...  Can someone explain
>to me just how a piece of code residing on the boot disk can be
>executed before the boot disk is mounted? I suspect that this wierd
>rumor started as part of an April fools joke.

I think the delay is stored in the PRAM (default is 15 sec) and the original
user was a bit confused, thinking it was a init instead of a utility that
would change the delay.  Somebody posted to one of the Mac groups a few weeks
back about this.  I wish I could remember which group it was or what utility
to use :-(.  One solution that I do remember was to add more memory.  Not as
cheap as changing the PRAM delay, but it is a solution.

         ---------   Doc


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