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From:Robert Cranley
Date:21 Jun 2001 at 00:38:22
Subject:Re: Cold Boot Delay

Hi Sam,

On 20-Jun-01, you wrote:

> I currently have a revision 2B A1200 with 3.1 ROMS in it and on bootup it
> starts the system straight up without any delay.

Hmmm.... What's on the IDE port? I once had that with an IDE splitter I
built myself and a certain CD-ROM drive, it would try to boot straight away,
and required a soft reboot to recognise the HD. Didn't happen with any other
CD-ROM I tried...

> With this new one however (1D4, 3.1) I get a 10second delay on turning on
> (I know 3.1 has a delay) - Question is...

That sounds like it might be normal - 3.1 does that to wait for a ready
signal from the IDE port, a good bit longer than 3.0 IIRC, but should start
booting as soon as it gets teh ready signal. There was a hack to get around
this with a doofer to plug onto the IDE port for when you're booting from
SCSI, but it was for the A4000.

> I find it strange that my current system does not have this delay where as
> the new one does and the only difference is the Motherboard Revision
> (forgetting about the Flyer and Hard disks on this machine) - I dont think
> I got the long delay on this machine as a bare floppy setup.

Hmmm... If it's any help, I'm using a 1D4 MoBo and it starts booting as soon
as the HD does its initialising thrash, but I've never used it without a HD
so I'm not sure about that delay...

Regards,
Rob



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