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From: aimania%killer.dallas.tx.us%CERNVAX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Autoconfig HD controllers
Message-ID: <5708@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 28 Nov 88 19:22:22 GMT
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 I've read quite a few messages on the net about autobooting disk controllers.
 But as far as I am concerned, there is no overriding benefit of an autobooting
 hard disk. Most disks take so long to spin up that you might as well have
 booted off the floppy. Especially if your startup sequence quickly switches to
 the hard disk. On an earlier startup sequence it was a race to see if the
 disk would get up to speed after power on before the startup-sequence started
 using it. About 5% of the time the disk took too long(ST225N).
 Also, any reboots after the disk is spun up can be accomplished
 faster using a small partition for RAD:.

 Only minor inconvenience is that you have to take any disk out of df0:
 otherwise the system will try to reboot from floppy without trying RAD:.
 Is there something you can patch in your startup sequence to force loading
 from RAD: instead of trying the floppy first?

--
Walter Rothe at the UNIX(Tm) Connection, Dallas, Tx
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