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- From: karkan@msdrl.com (Jim Karkanias)
- Subject: Re: PRoblem using DEC RZ-55/56 disks (braindead designers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.030414.21736@msdrl.com>
- Organization: Merck Research Laboratories
- References: <C0HyCH.8v2@fishpond.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 03:04:14 GMT
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- fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish) writes:
- : In article <1993Jan7.050758.9022@mail.cornell.edu> chris@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu writes:
- : >There is NO jumper on the drive to control this spin-up behavior. Rather,
- : >you need to toggle a flag in the drive's configuration data which is stored
- : >on a special reserved area of the disk itself.
- :
- : What braindead designer thought up this catch 22 situation. You can't
- : toggle the bit to spin up the drive by default, until you can spin up the
- : drive?
- :
- : -Fred
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- I think it's called an Escher dre.
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- Jim
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