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- From: "Michael M. Rye" <1726@topcity.mn.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 Hard Drive Problems...
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 20:56:19 GMT
- Organization: Born Information Services Group
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- para@Walden.mo.net (Beakman's Secret Identity) wrote:
- Tim Borgeaud (phtlb@zeus.bris.ac.uk) wrote:
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- Ti: There is the possibility that the hard drive spins up too slowly. This is
- Ti: a problem that has been discussed before. If the drive takes too long to
- Ti: get up to speed then the computer can not boot from it, this may be the
- Ti: problem.
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- Ti: Tim.
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- To>But that should only be a factor if the drive is cold booted, but if the
- To>computer is up and running and restarts without powering down, the drive
- To>shouldn't ever spin down...
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- To>This problem is happening all the time.
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- To>Plus, the drive never appears, unless reformatted...
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- To>Thanks for the suggestion though. :)
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- To>Tony Bossaller
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- Tony,
- This could also be a _reset_ line problem to the hard drive.
- Depending on what kind of hard drive it is, some of them (usually
- Conner drives) require you to cut line #1 on the IDE cable. This
- cuts off the reset signal from the computer to the drive so it
- won't spin down during a warm boot.
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