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- From: a95hanne@ida.his.se (Hannu Nevalainen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 22:10:10 GMT
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- > +On 05-Apr-96 11:18:03 Graham Chiu
- > +<gchiu@compkarori.co.nz>
- > +wrote about "Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?"
- > +in "comp.sys.amiga.hardware"...
-
- > 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 ...
-
- No "program" needed. Write an AmigaDOS script like this:
-
- --- S:Hickups ---
- FailAt 21
- LAB Loop
- List ZIP: <>NIL:
- Wait 25
- Skip BACK Loop
- ---
-
- 1> protect s:Hickups +s
-
- and enter
-
- Run <>NIL: S:Hickups
-
- somewhere (late) in your s:user-startup.
-
- /Hannu E.K. Nevalainen, Amiga since '85. /*á1996-04-05á@21:59áCETá*/
- >> Inform yourself... http://www.amiga.de/ /*áThorá2.22á[1642]á*/
- <sb> rexx:random(56 tags) -> "Win_BrokenGlass_1"
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