Getting Slow Drives to Boot

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From: Steve Hansel
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 20:29

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My local Amiga repairman showed me a quick and dirty
way to make the Hard Drives that take a long time to spin
up, boot.  He changes the resistor on the Motherboard
that determines the power on reset time.  I beleive the resistor
is R805.  It is usually 47K and we changed mine to around 80K to add
about 5 seconds to the boot time.

He usually cuts the resistor so the leads remain in the board and then
tack sodiers the new resistor onto the old leads.

Now my amiga takes a few more seconds to start self test but it boots
on the first try every time.


DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!


	Steve
	
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