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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: experiences with A2090A
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Date: 17 Oct 88 19:19:33 GMT
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In article <4997@cbmvax.UUCP> joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara) writes:
>Yes. The Seagates take approx. 25 seconds to initialize from power-on.
>  Joe O'Hara                ||  Comments represent my own opinions,

A) 25 seconds? My ST-157 takes 18seconds from first power to last "whir-beep"
Your mileage may vary. 

Anyway, the other solution is to buy one of those power sequencers that 
various people use to power cycle time sequenced critical equipment (like a
Seagate drive and a 2000).  Give the Seagate a 20sec head start and you
should be fine. 

The other two amazing items are :
	1) The autoboot code doesn't try again after a while. Certainly it
	   should move through the available autoboot devices repeatedly until
	   one of them boots. This would allow leaving DF0: either empty
	   or filled with an uninstalled disk as a valid option to getting
	   your seagate to boot.

	2) People are so worked up about it in the first place. My personal
	   experience may not be valid here but I find that over 90% of the
	   reboots I do are *not* from power-zero, rather they are of the
	   three fingered variety, instigated from the keyboard.

Cheers,
--Chuck McManis
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