> We simply can't seem to beat the Pro's firmware to come up first before the Pro concludes no hard disk is present. >charge the capacitors (very fast) and sta

> We simply can't seem to beat the Pro's firmware to come up first before the Pro concludes no hard disk is present. >charge the capacitors (very fast) and start bringing up the BBG while the Pro's initial boot fails. With our new shortened boot time the BBG will be ready and waiting by the time the Pro displays its error screen. We then power the Pro off and power it back on. As long as the power cycle is less than 20 seconds (I eventually upped this to 30 as there appears to be plenty of power available), the BBG will ride the stored charge and keep serving the emulated disk image so that on that second power-on (and every power-on thereafter) the Pro will see the drive and boot from it. eeew. Next time you are faced with such problem make your slow booting disk emulator control Reset signal of the main computer. Keep it in reset until emulator is ready.