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- You and a few guys want have the Reset1200 in the MCP. We have analysed this
- program and we think that nobody should use it.
- I can explain in a few lines which it does.
-
- This program patches the ColdReboot offset in the exec-library, but the pro-
- gram is programmed in C or something else so the patch of this program are
- false! The programmers have forgot to give the right libraryaddress in this
- patch, so that every program which uses this ColdReboot (f.e. MCP Noguru and
- the 'Reboot' command from Commodore) will crash !!!!!!
-
- The other thing is that the program overjump the processor 'RESET' command
- to forbid the reset from the harddrive. It's not your big harddrive !!
- The problem is that few Seagate harddisks go off if a reset command from the
- processor comes. This is not very good for the user, but it is the process
- of a Seagate-harddisk.
- The Reset command for the processor are always in the ROM, so that this pro-
- gram jumps over them. But the system need this reset command to reboot right.
- If you look with a tool (for example SysInfo) where your execbase is, so you
- can see, that after a fastreset the execlibrary are in Chipmem. I think that
- you must feel the speed decrease in your system after a FastReset, because
- especially the A1200 are twice as fast with real FastRAM and the execlibrary
- is the most used library in the system. We think that the patch from the
- ColdReboot offset in the execlibrary are not important, because this program
- not use this offset. But if we don't make this patch, your system lose all
- the fastmem after the reset.
-
- I think that you understand our problems and I think that you should not use
- the Reset1200 command, because who want decrease the speed from the system
- after each reset. We have no idea how we can do it and this is because we
- don't include a better fastreset. But the Reset1200 command is a very badly
- solution for your problem. If you want solve the problem with your harddisk
- forever then you can cut the red cable of the scsi-kabel from your internal
- harddisk. By a friend from me it works very good and he must not use a
- program that takes all the speed from the system !!
-