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- From: cs2lk@scms.rgu.ac.uk (Lee Kindness)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problem
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 15:26:09 GMT
- Organization: The Robert Gordon University, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Aberdeen, Scotland
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- Mike Williams (mikew@net-link.net) wrote:
- : I have an Amiga 4000 with a Maxtor 7850 850 Meg IDE drive on the internal
- : controller. It works fine, but when I turn on the machine for the first
- : time, the Kickstart screen (Reddish, with a hand inserting a floppy disk)
- : comes up almost immediately. It's clearly not waiting for the hard drive to
- : spin up. I know this is a bit of a problem on drives that take a while to
- : spin up, but with an earlier configuration it waited longer. My current
- : theory is that it checks for the existence of a hard drive, then if one
- : exists it waits a while, then checks if it's ready. For some reason the
- : machine doesn't notice the hard drive at boot up, so it doesn't wait for it
- : at all.
-
- : Can anybody help here? I can use the machine just fine by doing a warm boot
- : as soon as the drive spins up, but that shouldn't be necessary. Anybody know
- : of a better way around this?
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- util/boot/SlowBoot.lha
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