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From: jlink@pro-xy.cts.com (John Link)
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Subject: Re: A few questions...
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Date: 13 Aug 89 20:31:20 GMT
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Network Comment: to #398 by obsolete!pro-party!tomp

>how do you do a warm re-boot of proline with an Apple SCSI?  (more or less)

I do it all the time.  Just write a short BASIC boot program the boots from a
different drive (I can't imagine the hd being the only drive on the system)
that speicifically verifies the existence of the proline startup program on
the drive and slot upon which it normally resides.  Use and ONERR statement to
direct logic to reboot from the same secondary drive, by which time the SCSI
would certainly be up to speed.  If the startup program is found, then reboot
from the SCSI drive.  I have been doing this for 6 months, and find that
usually by the time ProDOS is to the point of polling the devices to wee what
is around my Seagate 277n drive is up to speed, and gets recognized...it
certainly does not take 30 seconds.  But sometimes, it is not, and I get a
second boot, by then all is ok.  What is nice about this setup is that it will
reboot an infinite number of times, so the only circumstance that woulc put
your BBS down is the one in which the SCSI drive got mangled.