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jensk@hpbbn.bbn.hp.com (Jens Kilian) writes:

  <concerning Syquest drives>
>I always boot using a disk with a warmstart program in the AUTO folder
>(and I don't like it).

Several years ago, Tim Purves wrote a program which sold in a package
called "Michtron Utilities" that would resolve the first-boot problem
with Syquests (and any other SCSI drive which won't auto-boot the first
time on powerup.)  It was called HARDAUTO.  You simply put your hard
drive booter software in the AUTO folder on a floppy in drive A:, and
then put HARDAUTO in there right behind it.  The first time you boot
you will still boot from the floppy, but HARDAUTO forces the system to
look for AUTO and .ACC files on the harddrive anyway...

There's also a program called SCSIBOOT that will write a bootsector to
floppy A: that issues a SCSI wakeup which takes care of the problem.
Personally, I don't prefer this method since I'd rather have my
VirusKiller Monitor Guard installed on my A: bootsector instead...

For some inexplicable reason, I dont have this problem anymore since I
installed a Maxtor 130meg fixed drive along with my Syquest.  But I
also know people who use only the Syquest, and they don't have the
problem at all...  Go figure.
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