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- From: ljdickey@math.uwaterloo.ca (L.J. Dickey)
- Subject: Re: Waiting for hard disks
- Message-ID: <Bt0Fvr.8qr@math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Aug11.003407.8936@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 05:43:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.003407.8936@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> cable@crs.cl.msu.edu (Dan Cable) writes:
- >Paul Purdom <pwp@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
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- >>Can someone recommend a program that waits for a hard disk to warm up
- >>when booting an ST? I haave been using one that printed jkwaiting while it
- >>was waiting, and I forgot its name. Also, I lost my copy (or else I have
- >>it stored under a name that does not ring a bell).
- >
- >Atari has released NOROACH for this purpose and there is also another program
- >called BOOTTYME which should do the trick.
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- The program that you lost is called hdboot by Jelske Kloppenberg
- Two sequels, hdwait2 and hdwait3 have been released by others.
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- Prof. Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
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