Re: CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists

2005-12-10 Thread Brian Mahoney
Check out this : http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/hardware/pb150/PB150_and_CompactFlash.html CF replaces hard drive. This is from hackaday. Pertains, I hope, to the current discussion except the CF actually replaces the hard drive. Fairly technical but just reading it provides some

Re: CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists

2005-12-09 Thread darm0k
At 9:46 PM -0500 12/08/2005, Gary F. Daught wrote: On Dec 8, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Dan wrote: Since you're booted from the CF card, you have nothing on the HD of interest? I'm not sure what you're asking me here. Just trying to figure out if you need the drive to be alive at all. The current

CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists

2005-12-08 Thread gfdaught
Ben, Thanks Ben Sivertsen for the tip to drag the hard drive to the Trash, though I'm still encountering hard drive spin-up. In fact, when the drive was spun-down, dragging it to the Trash caused it to spin-up! I'm almost tempted to erase the hard drive, but I want an alternative boot disk in

Re: CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists

2005-12-08 Thread darm0k
At 8:55 AM -0500 12/08/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still encountering hard drive spin-up. In fact, when the drive was spun-down, dragging it to the Trash caused it to spin-up! Of course. It's a dismount operation. The drive has to be spun up so the OS can write the final bits from the

Re: CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists

2005-12-08 Thread Gary F. Daught
On Dec 8, 2005, at 3:31 PM, PowerBooks wrote: Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:35:35 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists At 8:55 AM -0500 12/08/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still encountering hard drive spin-up. In fact, when the drive