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From: korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn)
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Subject: Re: DataFrame 20
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 23:11:29 EDT
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In article <2275@psuvax1.UUCP> zaccone@psuvax1.UUCP (Rick Zaccone) writes:
>I have a DataFrame 20, ...
>Whenever I turn it on, it takes 30 seconds to a minute
>before the disk even begins to spin.  This is *almost* always true, but
>there are times when it starts right away.

I've found this to be the case as well.  From what I understand, most
of the 30 sec. are needed for the drive to spin up (I'd think it could
do that in 15 sec. tops), and for a bit of error detection.

I've never timed it, but the five Dataframe 20's that I've used all
behaved as you've described.  What about other drives?  Anyone out on
the net have a hard drive that boots up *real*fast*?  Or is ~20-30 sec.
the norm?

Peter
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