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Article #24989Re: booting off a hard disk.
From: apratt
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1987 19:43
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1987 19:43
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in article <942@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>, rstpierr@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Pete St.Pierre) says: > I was told that even with a hard disk set up... The ST still needs a a disk > in the floppy drive to boot. Is this really the case? It seems to be a bit > of a waste. It is not necessary, but it saves time: The ST checks for a boot sector on your floppy first, then on the hard disk. If there's a floppy there, it reads the boot sector, notices that it's not executable, and goes right to the hard disk. Without a floppy, it tries (and retries...) to read with no luck. This adds about 10 seconds (maybe less) to the boot time. My boot disk is labelled "BOOT DISK," is write-protected, and is utterly blank. /----------------------------------------------\ | Opinions expressed above do not necessarily | -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. | reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. | ...lll-lcc!atari!apratt \----------------------------------------------/
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: booting off a hard disk. Message-ID: <517@atari.UUcp> Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 14:43:24 EST Article-I.D.: atari.517 Posted: Fri Jan 16 14:43:24 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Jan-87 16:06:48 EST References: <942@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20