Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!taob
From: taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Brian Tao)
Subject: Re: Best hard drive combo
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 91 04:48:08 EDT
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asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song) writes:

>         How do you IIgs hard-drivers do it? Is there a way to instruct the
> CPU to wait for the hard drive to warm up and come on-line (maybe a few
> seconds pause), THEN look in the other slots? How can you make the hard
> drive boot up first if your hard drive is a bit slow getting out of bed?

    On the RAMFast, you can configure the card to wait up to 30 seconds for 
the hard drive to come online.  That's more than enough time for it to power 
up, spin up to speed and begin responding to SCSI calls (I've never used a 
hard drive which took longer than about 16-17 seconds).  A better solution, 
IMHO, would be to leave your hard drive on all the time.  Mine's been 
powered up almost constantly since I bought it last December.  It might have 
been off for about 40 minutes total over the last 6.5 months.  Unlike the 
Mac or the PC, the GS will boot as soon as you flick the power switch.  No 
annoying memory checks or nagging disk icon with a '?' in it.  :-)
