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From: gnome@oliveb.UUCP (Gary)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re: 20 meg hard disk upgrade on 6300
Message-ID: <1167@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 14:47:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 22 14:47:58 1986
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>      As for the 18 to 20 second delay time, I believe that the HD 
> initialization code (in the optional ROM) is waiting for the drive
> to come up to speed before accessing it.  If this is indeed the case,
> there is nothing that you can do.  On a warm boot, do you still 
> experience the delay?  (If so, it is not due to the drive coming up to speed).
> 
> Tom Hjellming
> ...!ihnp4!hpfcla!thj


Actually, it is waiting for a possible EXTERNAL HDU to power-up.

New rev's of boot ROM take care of that delay.

Gary