brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels) (07/06/90)
How does one go about constructing a circuit that will hold off
the 1040ST until the hard drive gets up to speed?
(other than the listen and then flip switch interface :-)
Later,
Brian Daniels
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (07/07/90)
In article <1990Jul6.030726.24719@wolves.uucp> brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels) writes: > How does one go about constructing a circuit that will hold off > the 1040ST until the hard drive gets up to speed? > (other than the listen and then flip switch interface :-) There is a product called Baby Duck or some similar that does just this. But the guy who built these things got tired of it, I guess, and designed a software product that does the same thing. The program is called "duck31" by Larry Rymal. As it comes, off the shelf, it is designed to boot off a floppy, wait 15 seconds, and then issue a command to do a cold boot. By that time, your hard drive might be up to speed. The time delay is settable. You can get it from the server "terminator". Binaries/volume09: 14867 Apr 13 13:39 duck31.Z diskutils: 11823 Mar 24 18:24 duck31.arc
erkamp@arcsun.arc.ab.ca (Bob Erkamp) (07/09/90)
In article <1990Jul6.190229.19792@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> AAron@image.soe.clarkson.edu (AAron nAAs) writes: >From article <1990Jul6.030726.24719@wolves.uucp>, by brian@wolves.uucp (Brian Daniels): >> >> How does one go about constructing a circuit that will hold off >> the 1040ST until the hard drive gets up to speed? >> (other than the listen and then flip switch interface :-) >> Well I use a desk accessory (called HDWAIT?) that you put on a floppy and I just leave this in the machine when I turn my machine on (everything is on a powerbar). It waits to see if the hard drive is there and if it is boots off the hard drive. If not it waits a while and tries again...If anyones is interested I'll post it to binaries. Bob Erkamp