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From: HARRISME%MEVX01@dupont.com (Michael Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Xetec autoboot takes too long...
Message-ID: <22974@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 31 Aug 89 21:58:17 GMT
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Hi,

 This is a question for anyone who has or is familiar with the Xetec hard 
drive system on an A500 with 1.3 rom.

When I first installed this system on my father's A500, he just had 1.2 
installed in the system, no-problem. But he wanted autoboot and ordered
the new rom. I installed the new rom, turned the system on - nothing - 
as I sit there reading the manual(kinda worried) the computer started
booting.

The problem is from the time you reset the computer to the time its starts
to boot up is from 40 to 45 seconds!! BTW this is the Quantum 40s drive.  

I know there was problems with some drives not spinning up fast enough, but 45
seconds!!

Other than this the system works great....has anyone else had this problem?

BTW this system get over 400K reads with 32k buffers using diskperf3 in floppy
mode.

               Thanks, 
                         Mike
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