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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Microbotics Hard Disk
Message-ID: <260@pttesac.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 13:37:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 13:37:01 1986
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In article <1918@ecsvax.UUCP> ecue@ecsvax.UUCP (Eduardo Cue) writes:
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>I have now had the Microbotics Hard Disk for about a week. It is only
...
>same time. You must still boot the Kickstart and WB from disk. WB
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This isn't how it's going to be forever is it?  I hope to buy a
hard disk sometime (maybe next spring).  I sure hope that I won't
always be forced to load kick start and WB disks.  I'd like my
system to be able to boot up automatically after a power failure.
I normally leave my Amiga on all the time (my old computer has
never had a failure and has been on for about 5 years), but I
will still need to reboot after a GURU failure.

I REALLY DON'T WANT TO BE FORCED FOREVER TO HAVE TO LOAD DISKS
TO BRING THE SYSTEM UP!

Someone please tell me that this will be fixed by next spring.

Hope, hope, hope ...

Now that I've thought about this a little more, is it
possible (without too much difficulty) to battery back up
my kickstart ram/rom/prom/whatever-you-call-it?  Also can I
battery back up my RAM: disk if it is in my external add-on memory
so that I can recover the RAM: disk area after a power failure?
These are some features I'd be willing to pay $$ for.  I might even
forgo a hard disk if I can have that kind of battery backed up RAM: .

Marnix