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Article #6580Re: Hard Drive needs warmup???
From: Ti Kan
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1991 00:29
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1991 00:29
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In article <kshaffer.662913738@modcomp> kshaffer@modcomp.uucp (Ken Shaffer) writes:
>My brother's system when booted cold will not boot from his hard disk.
>If he let's it sit and warm up (leaving the invalid boot device message
>on the screen - or similar) for 15-20 minutes, then ctrl-alt-del, the
>system then boots from the hard disk.
Perhaps the power supply is inadequate, so when the hard disk is spinning
up during power up the disk controller (or some other circuitry) logic
fails. After the disk is up to speed, the power drain is much reduced,
and hence at this point doing a warm reboot will succeed.
-Ti
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!apple!altos!altos86!ti From: ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Hard Drive needs warmup??? Keywords: warmup, disk, drive, hard Message-ID: <4525@altos86.Altos.COM> Date: 4 Jan 91 00:29:46 GMT References: <kshaffer.662913738@modcomp> Reply-To: ti@altos86.UUCP (Ti Kan) Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 17