home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nntp.net-link.net!news
- From: mikew@net-link.net (Mike Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 14:30:36 GMT
- Organization: DC Productions
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4k5v6c$1ff@leol.net-link.net>
- References: <4jpsu7$48f@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu> <TyjY3RAbNPZxEwkC@gchiu.compkarori.co.nz>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: p1-20.net-link.net
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 2.1 Feb 19, 1994
-
- In article <TyjY3RAbNPZxEwkC@gchiu.compkarori.co.nz> Graham Chiu <gchiu@compkarori.co.nz> writes:
- > 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 ...
-
- Good idea. Maybe a script that just launches diskchange every few minutes?
- How easy is it to access the timer through a script?
-
- --
- .signature under construction
-