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- Subject: Re: Guru ROM boot delay
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- From: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga)
- Message-ID: <overlord.95th@megalith.miami.fl.us>
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 96 13:00:42 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Megalith Mail/News Server - Miami, FL USA
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- Henrik Dissing (hendis@aix1.danadata.dk) wrote:
- :
- : 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:
- :
- : Do you know any way that I can disable the delay?
-
- I beleive this delay is intentional in order to ensure that all drives
- have spun up. You might want to contact the author via E-mail and ask
- anyway. He would be the best authority.
-
- Carlos
-