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- From: cs2lk@scms.rgu.ac.uk (Lee Kindness)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: slow 2 1/2" HD bootup on 1200's
- Date: 2 Feb 1996 12:48:48 GMT
- Organization: The Robert Gordon University, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Aberdeen, Scotland
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- J. Warren (jw4505@irix.bris.ac.uk) wrote:
- : 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.
- : 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.
-
- And that is exactly what Slowboot does, in an integrated sort of way ;) It
- can also be used with CC0: and indeed any bootable device at boottime.
-
- : Julian Warren (jw4505@bris.ac.uk)
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