Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Faster boot with AHA 1542 SCSI controller? Distribution: world References: <1992@styx.sta.sub.org> <4283@polari.UUCP> Date: 30 May 91 19:34:52 CDT Organization: Elvis Presley Museum Of Obsolete Computing Hardware In article <4283@polari.UUCP> lampi@polari.UUCP (Michael Lampi) writes: [Booting SCSI system takes 1 minute] >It is too much if you have to reboot your machine (for various reasons) >several times an hour (or even several times a day), especially if you >know the devices are ready! How do you know they *are* ready? "Doctor, it hurts when I do that!" "Don't do that then." :-) Buy a ST-506 interface drive. :-) When I used a PC, I always put a chkdsk in my autoexec, because I found when buggy software (by Intel!) locked up my machine and I rebooted often, I often had lost chains. The real solution is *not* to reboot the darn thing every five minutes. (I'm sure you have your reasons - if you must tell me, do it via email). If you are rebooting your system this often, and you find the delay on startup while the system is probing for SCSI disks intolerable, then perhaps you ought to get a different hard drive setup. Booting my current system takes 5 minutes - I only reboot a couple of times a week, though. >Michael Lampi lampi@seattle.UUCP -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |