Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!rutgers!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: A2090 SCSI vs Video contention - here we go again! Message-ID: <14154@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 19 Dec 88 19:38:55 GMT References: <2453@antique.UUCP| <5496@cbmvax.UUCP> <14146@oberon.USC.EDU> <5524@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 20 In article <5524@cbmvax.UUCP| andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: |In article <14146@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: ||My question is as follows: what if you've one of the "autoboot" devices ||like the GVP board or the A2090A? With the GVP one can have a single ||partition, ALL of it FFS and still boot from it. So the FFS is up ||even before FastMemFirst can ever be run. | |There are 2 possible solutions to this: | |1) Set your GVP hard disk to automatically add a minimum number |of buffers when it fire up; 5 would be about right. Then |add the rest of the buffers via your startup-sequence (Addbuffers). I guess I should do AddBuffers FFS: AFTER FastMemFirst, right? -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=