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- From: cox@kiss.de (Joseph Cox)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Guru ROM boot delay
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 18:04:03 GMT
- Organization: KISS Kaiserslautern Internet Solution Service
- Message-ID: <1097.6611T1135T512@kiss.de>
- References: <1037.6608T16T2505@aix1.danadata.dk>
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- >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:
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- >Do you know any way that I can disable the delay?
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- See page 23 of the manual, "Jumpers and start-up options"
- You have two options. The soft fix is to press the F9 key
- while the amiga boots. The hard fix is to set the
- "Ignore RDB" jumper on the GVP SCSI card. See page 10-11
- to find the jumper for your card.
-
- >--
- >Henrik Dissing E-mail:
- >hendis@aix1.danadata.dk Tranbjerg, Denmark
- >FidoNet: 2:238/24.6
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