silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (05/12/91)
My Mega 2 (TOS 1.2) keeps the A drive running when I boot from the hard
disk. The only way to turn off the light is to put a disk in drive A.
Any idea why? Fix? Is it a problem?
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BITNET=silvert%biome%dalcs@dalac InterNet=silvert%biome@cs.dal.caboyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (05/12/91)
In article <1991May11.213508.1470@cs.dal.ca>, silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes: >My Mega 2 (TOS 1.2) keeps the A drive running when I boot from the hard >disk. The only way to turn off the light is to put a disk in drive A. >Any idea why? Fix? Is it a problem? If you put a blank (non-autobooting) disk in drive A, you will find that a) Your problem will go away b) Your hard disk will be seen much quicker. This is also a perfect place for an anti-virus bootsector (see VKILLER on atari.archive). Also, you can automate your hard disk book by using a program like SLEEP coupled with a program like COLDBOOT (from ICD). My "boot" floppy has the following: "screen" type anti-virus bootsector, which flashes "virus free disk" at bootup an auto folder containing: sleep05.prg - makes the computer sleep for 5 seconds coldboot.tos - cold boots the computer. I just turn on both computer and hard disk at the same time, and about 11 seconds later I am looking at Neodesk 3.0. -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------