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From: cmcmanis@sun.uucp (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Microbotics Hard Disk
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 17:13:55 EDT
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> In article <1918@ecsvax.UUCP> ecue@ecsvax.UUCP (Eduardo Cue) writes:
> >
> >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

Well, given how nicely 1.2 runs I would not be suprised to see it
available in ROM sometime shortly after its release. The "upgrade"
should be a simple matter of removing your WCS board and pluggin
in the chips. With that step aside, you need only leave a workbench
disk in the drive with the appropriate startup-sequence. If you wanted
to get really tricky you could put a photo sensor in the top left
corner of the monitor that looked for a blinking red line and feed
that as mouse clicks into the system (sort of an auto-guru-reboot)
Personally, I would like to see a preferences option to handle 
auto rebooting for those users who have no interest in tracking 
down the Guru number. The new message would say "click the left
button to Debug, otherwise reboot will occur in the next 5 seconds."

--Chuck
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These are of course my own opinions and not those of Sun