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From: curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis )
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Subject: Re: Best hard drive combo
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Date: 26 Jun 91 14:09:12 GMT
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In article <4774.apple.a2.net@pro-nbs> asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU
>        How do you IIgs hard-drivers do it? Is there a way to instruct the
>CPU to wait for the hard drive to warm up and come on-line (maybe a few
>seconds pause), THEN look in the other slots? How can you make the hard
>drive boot up first if your hard drive is a bit slow getting out of bed?

I don't have a GS or a hard drive, but I can think of a couple of ways to do
this:  first, there was an article in inCider a little while back regarding
setting up a delay to do it - though I seem to recall it working only on one
HD - there was some switch you could set for the delay.

Another way would be to leave a disk in the first non-HD drive in the chain
which would have in track 0 sector 0 a small routine to pause for X seconds
and then reboot the system - that way, if the HD isn't ready on boot, it will
hit that disk, pause, then reboot to the hard drive.  I can write you a small
routine to do this if no one else offers a better alternative (which there
must be outside of leaving a disk in the drive all the time)..

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