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- From: amiga@usage.csd.oz (Amiga Utilities)
- Subject: Re: PRoblem using DEC RZ-55/56 disks (braindead designers)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.082844.11161@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Sender: amiga@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities)
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- Organization: University Of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.
- References: <C0HyCH.8v2@fishpond.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:28:44 GMT
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- From article <C0HyCH.8v2@fishpond.uucp>, by fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish):
- > 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
- > --
- > |\/ o\ Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA
- > |/\__/ 1-602-491-0048 {asuvax,mcdphx,cygint,amix}!fishpond!fnf
-
- I have a little utility that fixes this behaviour. It worked for me
- with a RZ23L. It is runnable from AmigaDOS. Nothing pretty, and I
- had to ASCII hack the name of the device driver, but it works. You
- only need to use it once in a life-time.
-
- If anyone wants this little utility then mail me and I will send
- you an uuencoded version.
-
- BTW: The information is not stored on the disk, but in an EEPROM.
-
-
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