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- From: molin@ptb.cl.msu.edu (Michael Olin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: QUESTION: Syquest 44 boot
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 05:07:16 GMT
- Organization: Michigan State University
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- jensk@hpbbn.bbn.hp.com (Jens Kilian) writes:
-
- <concerning Syquest drives>
- >I always boot using a disk with a warmstart program in the AUTO folder
- >(and I don't like it).
-
- Several years ago, Tim Purves wrote a program which sold in a package
- called "Michtron Utilities" that would resolve the first-boot problem
- with Syquests (and any other SCSI drive which won't auto-boot the first
- time on powerup.) It was called HARDAUTO. You simply put your hard
- drive booter software in the AUTO folder on a floppy in drive A:, and
- then put HARDAUTO in there right behind it. The first time you boot
- you will still boot from the floppy, but HARDAUTO forces the system to
- look for AUTO and .ACC files on the harddrive anyway...
-
- There's also a program called SCSIBOOT that will write a bootsector to
- floppy A: that issues a SCSI wakeup which takes care of the problem.
- Personally, I don't prefer this method since I'd rather have my
- VirusKiller Monitor Guard installed on my A: bootsector instead...
-
- For some inexplicable reason, I dont have this problem anymore since I
- installed a Maxtor 130meg fixed drive along with my Syquest. But I
- also know people who use only the Syquest, and they don't have the
- problem at all... Go figure.
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