Kickstart 3.1 Boot Delay

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Been an K/S 3.0 user for years on my A4000.  But I recently got hold of an Cyberstorm PPC and K/S 3.1 + O/S 3.5 (and for completeness a Picasso IV GFX Card).

Now I remember hearing about K/S 3.1 IDE delay and O/S 3.5 patches needing reboots.  Can someone enlighten me more about this, and the best ways to reduce this?

I also am trying to get a CF card to boot of this system, again can get it to work with my old computer but the new one is a little more tricky.  With ~15Mb to play with what of O/S 3.5 should I install on this card?

Thanks in advance.

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I'm still having problems with setting up the CF card...

Basically I have a four port IDE adaptor, with...

PRIMARY : Hard Drive ... CD ROM

SECONDARY : CF Card (Set as Master) I know I can't boot from the secondary port!

If I connected this together before it would not find the CD ROM Drive and give me a rather corrupt (two cloned OCS workbench screens) from my Picasso-IV Card.  So I updated the atapi.device from my other computer, now it boots but dosen't show me my formated CF Card as on my other (K/S 3.0) computer.  If I go into Hard Drive Tool box it tells me I'm missing resource.library v44.  It is in my library dir but sys info doesn't pick it up.

I'm wondering whats missing form my startup-sequence?


I also tried booting from the 0/S 3.5 emergency floppy with just the CF and CD ROM connected, but again it can't find the CD-Rom drive.  So I can't try a fresh install on the CF card.  Thought it might be the cable, but as I'm still writing this you can guess the result!

Finally I tried to do the whole thing on my 3.0 machine installed 3.1 on the CF card (but can't do any more without swapping the ROMs over!) tried to reconnect to the K/S 3.1 machine but it won't boot!!!!

Any suggestions?