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From: 6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Darryl "NOT Ug" Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Making my mac wait for my hd to get up to speed?
Keywords: HD hd hard drive Hard Drive wait Wait mount Mount
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Date: 22 Jun 91 00:19:48 GMT
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well, i figured out a round-about solution to my problem:

per someone's suggestion, i downloaded SCSIProbe 3.0.1, which provides
a user-configurable hot-key to mount all volumes at any time. This
does the same thing at the old MountEm FKey, but MountEm was crashing
on my computer.

anyways, i "wired" the hot-key to a QuickKey (v. 1.2.1), and then
created a sequence named "Startup" that "hit" the hot-key.

using the QuickTimer cdev, i set it up so that the sequence
named "Startup" would run every time my computer (gee, have you
guessed it by now) started up.

so what happens now is that my power key turns on the computer, the
monitor, and my external hd.  my internal hd kicks in immediately,
starting my long parade of inits and cdevs. meanwhile my external hd
is still warming up. by the time my extensions are loaded, my external
is fully up to speed (well, as up to speed as an old 20 meg CMS--
Seagate mechanism--can go).

this is where QuickTimer and QuickKeys does their thing. the startup
sequence is run (the SCSIProbe hot-key is "hit"), and my external hd
mounts.  whoopee!

many thanx to the many people who responded to this one :}

				--Darryl
				  6600dayl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu