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- From: jw4505@irix.bris.ac.uk (J. Warren)
- Subject: Re: slow 2 1/2" HD bootup on 1200's
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- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:06:18 GMT
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- Lee Kindness (cs2lk@scms.rgu.ac.uk) wrote:
- : John Asbacher (asbacher@axionet.com) wrote:
- : : Well I have worked with about 10 Amiga 1200's here in town and
- : : they sometimes don't bootup from a cold boot. The hard drives
- : : are too slow at starting so the system doesn't recognize it.
- : : The Amiga 1200 then goes on merrily asking you to put in a
- : : floppy for bootup and the hard drive, late like usual sits there
- : : waiting for you to do a warm reboot!?!
-
- : : Is there a simple way to tell the Amiga 1200 to wait an extra,
- : : (who cares) say 15 seconds?
- : : or just keep polling for the HD.
- : : It's extremely frustrating to have to do soft reboots,
- : : esspecially when there are no keyboards attached.
-
- : try util/boot/SlowBoot.lha for a /software/ solution.
-
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- Another alternative is a PCMCIA SRAM card which you could boot from and
- then include a reset if HD not found operation in the SS.
-
-
- Julian Warren (jw4505@bris.ac.uk)
-