Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: HD Problems, another question Message-ID: <7585@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 7 Oct 90 23:48:19 GMT References: <7476@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 21 In article bbs@bluemoon.UUCP (BBS login) writes: >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".) I still don't really understand why it acts the weird way it does. As I've said before, it doesn't do it all of the time upon bootup (or warm boot or anything)... It does it SOMETIMES and I can't figure out why.. I think it might be if I try to boot without a disk in the drive, but that's a rare thing... Then after that it pauses at the ProDOS screen.. This is just a guess.. I'm just trying to clarify what it does for ME, which doesn't seem to be the same things as it does to other people. -- / Apple II(GS) Forever! unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu \ \"If cartoons were meant for adults, they'd be on in prime time."-Lisa Simpson/