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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: GVP 2 Boot
Message-ID: <07543.AA07543@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 22 Apr 91 15:51:52 GMT
References: <9104221650.AA20431@alessia.dei.unipd.it> <anderson.672368130@mrcnext>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <anderson.672368130@mrcnext>,
anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent James Anderson) writes:

> After I got the FaaaST ROMS upgrade to my GVP controller
> [...] I also started experiencing a much greater boot
> time...

gvpscsi.device V3.7 is the only version affected.

> On the screen that follows you must (basically) tell the
> controller which SCSI device is the last one that must be
> auto-mounted.

For all later versions, this is no longer required.
Furthermore, the driver no longer demands SCSI ID 0 be
present, i.e. one can assign SCSI IDs in any order without
slowing down the boot process.

Ralph