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From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: slow starter
Keywords: booting, hard disk
Message-ID: <1990Feb27.190614.13619@seri.gov>
Date: 27 Feb 90 19:06:14 GMT
References: <906@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> <1990Feb7.202324.22394@seri.gov> <912@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> <603@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
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Elbereth@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:

>In article <912@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl>, wsinpp@lso.win.tue.nl (Peter Peters) writes:
>> > marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes :
>> >
>> > [stuff deleted]
>> >
>> > I suspect the original disk that was slow to start wasn't getting
>> > enough power to spin it up to speed quickly.  It took about 15 seconds
>> > to get started.
>> > 

>Nope, No power supply is going to be THAT slow, forget it.
>Far more likely is that your controller thinks it's got another drive
>(hard or floppy) which is not there, but it waits around in case it's
>one of the old ones which did take up to a minute to spin up before it
>can finally be sure that it really doesn't exist.

Then why did my problem go away when I replaced the drive - not the
controller.  The replacement drive was the same model as the old one.
I changed no setup information.
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