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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP HC+RAM Series II - Booting
Message-ID: <07195.AA07195@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 4 Apr 91 04:44:57 GMT
References: <w3FuZ1w163w@dorsai.com>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <w3FuZ1w163w@dorsai.com>, jakester@dorsai.com
(Jake Richter) writes:

> Upon powerup, the disk drive light flashes at low
> intensity for about 45 seconds, then finally starts acting
> like its reading from the drive and goes thru the boot
> sequence. No problem, I assume, that's just the
> Initialization (could someone confirm this?).

With a Quantum harddisk, this is way too long. Apparently,
you have an old driver ROM that expects SCSI ID 0 to be
present all the time. To speed things up, either remove
jumpers A0, A1, and A2 from your Quantum drive and select
"Last Disk" in FaaastPrep, or upgrade to V3.8 or later.

Ralph