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- From: Graham Chiu <gchiu@compkarori.co.nz>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 23:18:03 +1300
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- In article <4jpsu7$48f@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu>, Jerry Heyman
- <jerry@arlut.utexas.edu> writes
- >
- >The JAZ has spindown in hardware such that after 30 minutes of inactivity
- >it spins down. It will then spin up the next time its accessed. I have
- >four 100MB partitions on the JAZ (the rest probably going to NetBSD), and
- >one of the partitions icons was still listed but when I clicked on it -
- >the response was that was not mounted.
- >
- So why not write a little program to access the Jaz drive every 20
- minutes or so ...
-
-
- Graham Chiu
- CompKarori, Karori Shopping Mall, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand
- Amiga, Jaguar, PlayStation, and PC sales, & Wellington Internet Connections
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