| From: | Alex |
| Date: | 29 Jan 2000 at 09:07:15 |
| Subject: | Re: Mounter, HDToolbox |
From: Alex <neurodancer@gmx.de>
Hello Dale!
On 28-Jan-00, you wrote about "[amigaOS3_5] Re: Mounter, HDToolbox":
> This seems related somehow to the problem I described with my
> zip disks. In HDToolBox it comes up fine, but in the early
> startup screen it doesn't show up at all. Weird.
AmigaOS has a "Last Disk Flag", IIRC its stored in the RDB. If you
originally prepped your HD's without the ZIP drive being accessible and
given that the ZIP has a higher SCSI address than your HD's, that flag is
set for the last HD on your system. During a reset or power-up,
scsi.device stops scanning the bus for connected devices once it finds the
Last Disk Flag. This is very useful if you have dead-slow devices like
tapestreamers or old CD ROMs on your scsi bus.
I don't know about ZIP drives, but if they're only visible to the system
when a disk is inserted, chances are you only need to put a disk into the
drive, start HDToolBox and write your setup.
Manly's Maxim:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to
the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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