stuck or broken Focus drive

["John" <zzzjoki@yahoo.com>]

o my Focus drive won't boot

Over the years I've been able to continue using it by repeatedly
resetting. Eventually it booted and once it did it would be fine unless
it sits for a long while. In this instance, however, I can't get it to
boot (so far).

1) I can't recall the vendor I purchased the replacement drives from
last time. It was a reseller of 2nd hand drives, like a 200 meg Conner.
They were really cheap, $15ish or less, I think the vendor was located
in CA, they mostly handled old hard drives. Their name reflected the
selling of 2nd hand hard drives. (it wasn't the guy who sells the focus
cards). Anyone know who I'm talking about, or have a suggestion for a
vendor?

2) Meanwhile I thought I could write a program which would reboot the
computer. If the Focus drive doesn't boot eventually the 5.25 drive
will activate. It will continue to spin (the hd seeks stop),  unless
you reset it. I would like to create an auto running BASIC program
which would reset the computer like a cold start. This way it can cycle
unattended until the HD boots. How do I do this?