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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!fishpond!fnf
  3. From: fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish)
  4. Subject: Re: PRoblem using DEC RZ-55/56 disks (braindead designers)
  5. Message-ID: <C0HyCH.8v2@fishpond.uucp>
  6. Organization: Amiga Library Distribution Services
  7. References: <mk.0gsd@mkrara.rara.sub.org> <1993Jan7.050758.9022@mail.cornell.edu>
  8. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:36:17 GMT
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  11. In article <1993Jan7.050758.9022@mail.cornell.edu> chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu writes:
  12. >There is NO jumper on the drive to control this spin-up behavior.  Rather,
  13. >you need to toggle a flag in the drive's configuration data which is stored
  14. >on a special reserved area of the disk itself.
  15.  
  16. What braindead designer thought up this catch 22 situation.  You can't
  17. toggle the bit to spin up the drive by default, until you can spin up the
  18. drive?
  19.  
  20. -Fred
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  22. |\/ o\  Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284,  USA
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