Re: Focus HD -> CF Questions

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On Mar 6, 7:55 am, "John" <zzzj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Problem - the CF disk will not warm boot with a Control-OA-Reset I also
> have this problem with another Focus card & HD which I formatted.

I had this problem with my Focus (before it killed itself)...

Pressing control-reset sends a reset to the card...  during reset, the
hard drive power is removed.  When you release the keys, the HD goes
through its startup procedure (spin up, move the head)...  This
startup
procedure takes too long on ?some? HD's, and the card is already
trying
to boot the drive even though the drive isn't ready to go yet.  When
the
HD is done with its startup procedure, the computer is locked up ?
looking
at the focus card?...  Solution:  control reset to get to a prompt.
if you get
to ] prompt, type PR# (whatever slot the focus is in)... if you get to
the * prompt,
type CX00G, where X = slot you have your focus in.

> Speed - the CF card seems about as fast as the HD. It's an old 8 meg
> card from a Camera. I wonder if a faster CF card would speed things up
> more, or is the 1MHz //e the bottleneck?

??  less than 10 seconds boot is too slow for you ??  I imagine a HD
would be
faster than a CF card...

I think all you can do is get better media device with a faster seek
time...

Rich