Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!neil
From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Booting
Keywords: booting, disk integrity
Message-ID: <1895@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jul 88 07:29:54 GMT
References: <378@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <378@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu
(Rob Carriere) writes:
>If you listen during power-up, you will notice
>that there is a pause of about a second before the disk door slides
>open.

Not that it matters much to the discussion, but the noise you hear is not the
disk door sliding open but the drive pin slipping into the funny shaped hole
in the disk hub. If you look at a 'naked' drive with a disk in it you'll see
the disk door is already open.

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