25 Dec
1998
25 Dec
'98
2:30 p.m.
It's
possible to make the drive autostart; it's some sort of settable
option in the drive's firmware. The only program I've seen to manipulate
it, however, is rzdisk on the MIPS-based DECstations. Using rzdisk under
Ultrix, you can configure the drive to spin up on power on. I believe
there's also a version of RZDISK available for Alpha VMS, but I've not
encountered it there.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
THANK YOU! Armed with that knowledge I discovered DECUS has MACRO source
for a VMS utility called RZ_SPINUP. It configures the drive the same way.
Once I get my 3100 here I can tweak the drives appropriately. :)
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com