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- From: John McCrea <john@jmccrea.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 96 01:38:06 GMT
- Organization: Personal
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- Phil Wright (pwright@crash.cts.com) wrote:
- >
- > On 02-Apr-96 05:38:31, Jerry Heyman was reported to have said:
- > >Hi there,
- >
- > >Last week I reported that the installation of the JAZ drive went smoothly.
- > >That's still true, so I'm not complaining about that.
- >
- > >Left my A3000 on unattended (not running anything much) for several hours
- > >over the weekend and when I went to use it later that night, one of my
- > >partitions had become unmountable. Let me try to further explain:
- >
- > You can do what I do. In my shell-startup I have:
- >
- > Alias spinjaz scsiutil [] -m 1
- >
- > And if the Jaz has spun down, I just enter "spinjaz <unit-number>" and it
- > comes back up. I've learned to not access any of the Jaz volumes if it
- > has spun down but to wait until it has spun back up again.
- >
- > Same thing could be done with an IconX script or ToolsDaemon menu entry,
- > etc.. (SCSIUtil is a SCSI util program you can find on Aminet.)
- >
- > You can also eject and reinsert the cartridge which works just as well.
- > Since the drive has spun down already, it isn't a big deal to do this.
- >
- > The problem is that the Jaz will only spin back up if something tries to
- > access it (makes sense). Unfortunately the OS says, oh, that volume isn't
- > mounted anymore so I won't try and read it and thus it doesn't cause the
- > Jaz to spin back up.
- >
-
- What happens if you do a 'diskchange <partition>' ?
-
- Regards
-
- John
-
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