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  1. Path: newshub.cts.com!usenet
  2. From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: JAZ spindown and lost volumes?
  5. Date: 12 Apr 1996 17:21:55 GMT
  6. Organization: CTS Network Services
  7. Message-ID: <524.6676T610T1881@crash.cts.com>
  8. References: <4jpsu7$48f@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu> <1276.6666T898T778@crash.cts.com> <9604050138.AA00187@jmccrea.demon.co.uk>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: gargoyle.cts.com
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  12. On 05-Apr-96 06:38:06, John McCrea was reported to have said:
  13. >>
  14. >> The problem is that the Jaz will only spin back up if something tries to
  15. >> access it (makes sense).  Unfortunately the OS says, oh, that volume
  16. >> isn't mounted anymore so I won't try and read it and thus it doesn't
  17. >> cause the Jaz to spin back up.
  18. >> 
  19.  
  20. >What happens if you do a 'diskchange <partition>' ?
  21.  
  22. Doesn't always work and as I recall, if it didn't, you played hell getting
  23. the thing recognized again without a reboot.
  24.  
  25.   Phil
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  27. pwright@cts.com
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