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- From: bruce@rpl.regina.sk.ca (Bruce Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Squirrel SCSI Boot Time
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 07:10:48 GMT
- Organization: You Must Be Kidding
- Message-ID: <4fes1o$e2v@mongol.sasknet.sk.ca>
- References: <4etelc$doc_001@salford.ac.uk> <4f0kot$ak6@mongol.sasknet.sk.ca> <605.6611T575T2951@genie.geis.com>
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- In article <605.6611T575T2951@genie.geis.com>, Steven Folberg wrote:
-
- :Hmmmm, I've wondered abut exactly this thing: if I only have a CD-Rom hooked
- :up at address 0, can I just comment out all those other lines in user-startup?
-
-
- Aaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhh. The cat jogged the phone and my connection
- dropped just before I was about to wrap up a reply. Once more into the
- breach......
-
- Yes. Comment them out. Before doing that, watch your hard drive light
- during a boot - it will flash once per line. Time those flashes. That
- is dang near how much time you will gain. Now, those lines call the same
- program that scsimounter in your squirrel drawer uses. Commenting out
- the unused ones is the functional equivalent of NOT clicking on empty
- lines in scsimounter's requestor - there, doesn't that make you feel
- better :-)
-
- I've left everything in, but, that is partly because my scsi chain has
- been subject to change on short notice and partly because I work on macs
- and powermacs at work and, well, I'm kinda used to obscenely long boot
- times.
-
- :
- :Thanks for a reply.
-
- Every once in a long while, someone asks about something I've actually
- spent time figuring out. I owe a lot to these newsgroups, and it feels
- really good to be able to pay back once in a while.
-
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