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- From: aa783@ccn.cs.dal.ca (David Oakes)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Guru ROM boot delay
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 19:20:01 GMT
- Organization: Chebucto Community Net
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- Henrik Dissing (hendis@aix1.danadata.dk) wrote:
- : Hi, everybody.
-
- : I have recently bought and installed a Guru ROM v6.2 on a GVP Series
- : II SCSI host adapter in my trusty A2000.
-
- : As the manual explains, after a reboot the omniscsi.device scans the
- : SCSI bus for about 15 seconds in order to identify all attached devices.
-
- : However, the only devices I have are a Quantum Lightning 740 MB harddisk
- : (unit 0) and an Archive Viper 150 streamer tape drive (unit 1). The
- : Quantum has never had any problems spinning up before the installation
- : of the Guru ROM, so it seems to be a waste of time to scan the SCSI bus
- : for 15 seconds at every boot-up. I thought the answer was to set the
- : RDBFF_LAST flag on the RDB of the harddisk, but now I don't even think
- : the RDB is read until after the 15 seconds. Still, this is what rdbCtrl
- : returns:
-
- : 1> rdbctrl
- : Unit 000: LastLUN LastTarget.
- : Unit 001: streamer.
-
- : Do you know any way that I can disable the delay?
-
- You did change the info with FaaastPrep or ExpertPrep, right? When I made
- the setting change, I used FaaastPrep, then used the (slightly) modified
- version of HDToolBox which was on the guru-rom disk, the C=/AT supplied
- HDToolBox from OS 3.1 would try and rewrite the change anytime I used it
- (HDToolBox doesn't have anywhere to set that info).
-
- The FaaastPrep flags to set for SCSI address 0 are Last LUN and Last Disk.
- Maybe LastTarget isn't be the same thing as Last Disk?
-
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