Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!percival.rain.com!nerd From: nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Faster boot with AHA 1542 SCSI controller? Message-ID: <1991May31.054945.24954@percy.rain.com> Date: 31 May 91 05:49:45 GMT References: <1992@styx.sta.sub.org> <4283@polari.UUCP> Sender: news@percy.rain.com (news maintainer) Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR. Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: percival.rain.com ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) writes: >In article <4283@polari.UUCP> lampi@polari.UUCP (Michael Lampi) writes: >>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? ... >... 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. The 154[02][ab] are rather dumb in this respect. I have one in my xenix box. My NeXT on the other hand assumes that there is at least one bootable device out there and waits only 'til this one reports ready. Works well so far. I can't think of any reason the 1540 series boards don't do this. -michael -- Michael Galassi | nerd@percival.rain.com MS-DOS: The ultimate PC virus. | ...!tektronix!percy!nerd