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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: SCSI question #4376:-}
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 01:40:18 GMT
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- Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm@sdd.hp.com) wrote:
- : rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Robert Davis) wrote:
-
- : >I can't prove it, but I suspect the long wait to boot is
- : >something related to the Commodore SCSI driver, the removeable
- : >media drive (CD or writable), and their interaction.
- : >I have read that CDROM owners with other types of SCSI host
- : >adapters do see their systems boot swiftly without a disk
- : >in the CD drive.
-
- : Well, the same thing happens on several GVP controllers, so it's not just
- : the cbm scsi.device.
-
- Please pardon if this has already been suggested, but long boot times are
- often caused by not setting the "Last Drive" flag in the RDB of the
- highest hard drive. Normally, I put it in the RDB of the boot disk; this
- will cause problems for everybody who insists on using RDBs on removable
- media drives (Zip/EZ). Another reason for using a mountlist...
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