bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) (07/26/90)
Could someone post the way to turn off clicking for the internal drive on the
A3000? Thanks.
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INET: bga@pnet51.orb.mn.orgcoco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) (07/26/90)
In article <2924@orbit.cts.com> bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >Could someone post the way to turn off clicking for the internal drive on the >A3000? Thanks. > Yeah, stick a floppy into the drive!!! 8^) It doesn't cost anything, and it doesn't require memory or cpu time from your Amiga. --------------------------- Felix A. Lugo coco@ihlpy.att.com
nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) (07/27/90)
In article <1990Jul26.144452.8771@cbnewsl.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes: >In article <2924@orbit.cts.com> bga@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >>Could someone post the way to turn off clicking for the internal drive on the >>A3000? Thanks. > Yeah, stick a floppy into the drive!!! 8^) > It doesn't cost anything, and it doesn't require memory or cpu > time from your Amiga. Yeah, but when you reboot the machine will it try to boot off the floppy? Or is there a way on the 3000 to force boot from hard disk, while somehow leaving the option open for booting off floppy when absolutely necessary? - Neil --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- Neil Weinstock @ AT&T Bell Labs // What was sliced bread att!edsel!nsw or nsw@edsel.att.com \X/ the greatest thing since?
desmarai@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Stephane Desmarais) (07/31/90)
In article <1990Jul27.050454.11169@cbnewsm.att.com> nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) writes: >In article <1990Jul26.144452.8771@cbnewsl.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes: >>>Could someone post the way to turn off clicking for the internal drive on the >>>A3000? Thanks. >> Yeah, stick a floppy into the drive!!! 8^) >> It doesn't cost anything, and it doesn't require memory or cpu >> time from your Amiga. > >Yeah, but when you reboot the machine will it try to boot off the floppy? Just put a non-bootable floppy in (or even an unformatted floppy!)k As for the comment about not requiring memory, I "think" it is false, it does require some memory. Just look at the free memory count at the top of the screen when you insert a disk. I'm not sure, but I think it goes down a tiny winny bit. Nothing to be concerned of though. As for the initial question, wasn't there supposed to be a preference setting for that in AmigaOS 2.0 ? -- Stephane M. Desmarais desmarais@iro.umontreal.ca (le Domaine Canadien) Departement d'informatique uunet!mcgill-vision!iros1!desmarais Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128 Succ. A Montreal Quebec Canada H3C 3J7 Projet IBM/CRIM/UdeM sur MAP/MMS (514) 343-7660
dailey@kira.uucp (Chris Dailey) (08/01/90)
In article <1990Jul31.155439.21621@IRO.UMontreal.CA> desmarai@sylvere.UUCP (Stephane Desmarais) writes: >In article <1990Jul27.050454.11169@cbnewsm.att.com> nsw@cbnewsm.att.com (Neil Weinstock) writes: >>In article <1990Jul26.144452.8771@cbnewsl.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes: >>>>Could someone post the way to turn off clicking for the internal drive on the >>>>A3000? Thanks. >>> Yeah, stick a floppy into the drive!!! 8^) >>Yeah, but when you reboot the machine will it try to boot off the floppy? >Just put a non-bootable floppy in (or even an unformatted floppy!)k >As for the comment about not requiring memory, I "think" it is false, it >does require some memory. Just look at the free memory count at the top >of the screen when you insert a disk. I'm not sure, but I think it goes down >a tiny winny bit. Nothing to be concerned of though. As for the initial >question, wasn't there supposed to be a preference setting for that in >AmigaOS 2.0 ? Couldn't you just reset the BootPri for the hard drive to a higher value? Then it would work no matter what on a WARM reboot, right? Any gurus out there care to verify that? >Stephane M. Desmarais desmarais@iro.umontreal.ca (le Domaine Canadien) -- /~\ Chris Dailey (CPS Undergrad, SOC Lab Coord, AMIG user group Secretary) C oo dailey@(cpsin1.cps|frith.egr).msu.edu (make WP5.1 for the Amiga) _( ^) "I am thankful for one leg. To limp is no disgrace -- / ~\ I may not be number one, but I can still run the race." -from B.C.
mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (mjl) (08/05/90)
In article <1990Aug1.051429.1978@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> dailey@kira.uucp (Chris Dailey) writes: > >Couldn't you just reset the BootPri for the hard drive to a higher >value? Then it would work no matter what on a WARM reboot, right? >Any gurus out there care to verify that? > > /~\ Chris Dailey (CPS Undergrad, SOC Lab Coord, AMIG user group Secretary) Could lead to trouble. If you somehow trashed your drive so that it would boot but then hang, you'd have no recourse but to physically remove the drive in order to get your system back up again. I've had that happen with RAD: when I set its BootPri greater than than of df0: -- but at least in that case turning off the machine gets rid of the problem. Still, the odds of that happening to your hard drive are probably small (at least I hope so :-). Maurice LeBrun Institute for Fusion Studies mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu University of Texas at Austin