Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Dead-End Alerts and Guru's (Was Re: Suggestion for 1.4) Message-ID: <4073@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 21 Jun 88 13:53:31 GMT References: <611@myrias.UUCP> <62300007@hobbiton> <3548@enea.se> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 22 In article <3548@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes: >First, how do you use SetAlert ? I got it at a disk with a lot more stuff, Just run setalert as a background program. It patches the DisplayAlert vector to work with C00000 memory. >Whay the long delay of 25 seconds when starting up with a jh0: PC hard >disk? Some friends of mine have such beasts and are rather annoyed. Before accessing the PC side, the Amiga must wait for the thing to fire up. Depending on the amount of ram you have, this can take awhile. Until the PC is fully awake, the Amiga can't communicate with it (not and expect an answer, anyway) -- andy finkel {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "Un*x is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.