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From: bbs@bluemoon.UUCP (BBS login)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: HD Problems, another question
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Date: 6 Oct 90 00:51:44 GMT
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The wait you see when booting a floppy IS the SCSI card still.  ProDOS and 
GS/OS both call all slot-based firmware device drivers to initialize them 
at OS startup.  With the High Speed SCSI card, this still causes a wait 
after the P8 startup screen appears.  On subsequent boots the delay might 
not occur if the SCSI card remembers that no devices were attached.  (I'm 
not sure if this is something that it usually does or if software could do 
something to cause it to "forget".)