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> In article <2275@psuvax1.UUCP> zaccone@psuvax1.UUCP (Rick Zaccone) writes:
> >I have a DataFrame 20, ...
> >Whenever I turn it on, it takes 30 seconds to a minute
> >before the disk even begins to spin.  This is *almost* always true, but
> >there are times when it starts right away.

Before it begins to SPIN?  This sounds like a hardware problem!

> I've found this to be the case as well.  From what I understand, most
> of the 30 sec. are needed for the drive to spin up (I'd think it could
> do that in 15 sec. tops), and for a bit of error detection.
> 
> I've never timed it, but the five Dataframe 20's that I've used all
> behaved as you've described.  What about other drives?  Anyone out on
> the net have a hard drive that boots up *real*fast*?  Or is ~20-30 sec.
> the norm?
> 
> Peter
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Mine never takes more than 10 seconds or so to go from flashing question mark
to smiling Mac, unless I power down or reboot without going through shut down
(in the Finder's Special menu).  When I shut down, I turn the DataFrame off
AFTER the Mac beeps and BEFORE the disk-with-flashing-question-mark appears.
If you turn it off after the smiling Mac appears, then you'll have to wait
next time you boot up while some data structures are rebuilt on the disk
(the volume allocation bitmap maybe?).

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Scott Stevens
AT&T (Consumer Products)
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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