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From: gmark@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Stewart)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Leave Diagnostic Disk In?
Keywords: Does this cause other problems?
Message-ID: <4813@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 May 88 23:03:38 GMT
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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A while ago, someone stated on the net that they made a practice of
leaving the diagnostic disk in, so that, in the event of a power
problem, it would start to boot and sit there.  This would prevent
the repeated cycling that could damage the HD.  Has anyone been
doing this, and has ANYONE had any problems with it?  Might it be a
better idea to switch the power through a latched relay, so that
a power outage would disconnect power from the machine permanently
until someone manually reset the latch?  What I'D like to do is
to set the darn thing to switch off permanently in the event of an
overheating until I reset the thing -- like a thermostatic circuit
breaker.  Comments?????????????

				- Mark

				G. Mark Stewart
				ATT_BTL, Naperville, Ill. ix1g266
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