Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!claris!scott
From: scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS Answers
Message-ID: <8519@claris.com>
Date: 30 Jan 89 21:19:04 GMT
References: <8901292316.AA17279@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <8901292316.AA17279@crash.cts.com>, by tsouth@pro-pac.cts.com (System Administrator):
 
|>>o  I noticed that on the 3.5 inch system disk, there is the running
|>>   thermometer while it loads.  When I boot up the hard-drive, the
|>>   thermometer does not run (blank) until just before the finder comes up.
|>>   (total boot time about 25 secs after the hard-drive comes up to
|>>   speed)
| 
|>The thermometer is a feature of System Disk 4.0.  The thermometer
| [...]
|>application.  For the first boot after you add or remove desk
|>accessories or other stuff that affects the boot time, the
|>thermometer will be wrong.
| 
| Be that as it may, the problem he is experiencing also shows up on
| my hard drive, and I did purchase GS/OS from my dealer.  Using installer
| I have properly installed all files onto the boot partition, and still
| the thermometer does _not_ show up until one second before the finder
| pops up, leading one to believe that it doesn't run until the finder
| is run.  Does this mean that the thermometer does not run on the
| System Disk until finder is run?  Or is there something not kosher in
| the calculations because we are not using the Apple SCSI card?

Ever since Hartford (GS/OS) was bootable from a CMS, I've witnessed the
odd behaviour of the thermometer.  This has been the case on both a 60Mb
and a 20Mb drive.  The actual drawing of the thermometer is done by
a heartbeat task.  I'd guess it has something to do with the fact that
CMS's require a generated driver (the driver is not the same as the SCSI
driver in the DRIVERS directory, but is generated on the fly).  At any
rate, this is not indicative of problems.  It's just something you have
to get used to.


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