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From: nic@dworld.UUCP (Nic Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Warm Reboot and Hard Disk Noise
Message-ID: <427@dworld.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 19:18:44 GMT
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In article <12083@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) writes:
>for the first time, when (I think) AmigaDOS puts a lock on the root track.  If
>I Mount the other partitions, they do not show up on the Info device table
>until I at least cd to the partition.  I assume this is also standard behavior
>for A2090 multiple partitions, but I don't know, since I have not yet met
>anyone who partitions their A2090 configuration.  Any comments?

	This is standard AmigaDos behaviour, but only vague reference is
	made to it in the manuals.  This is very similar to the ram:
	initialization of putting the line "DIR RAM: >NIL:" in your
	startup-sequence so that an icon appears for it.  The system does
	not seem to really mount the device until some command is run which
	requires a lock on that device.  For a hard disk CD is probably the
	best command to use since it has no output, and generates the least
	amount of disk activity.

>Ethan R. Dicks 

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