OS 3.9 crazy boot time????

[AmiDude]

Is that CD/DVD combo drive a recordable deal by any chance? Every Amiga I've ever hooked one of those to, or any SCSI device that records, besides a HD, has always been a thorn in my side boot time wise. Something about logical unit numbers or some stupid **** that nobody should ever be bothered with. Even dealing with all the stupidity like changing drive and device numbers makes no difference.

To make matters worse, no version of your commercial software such as AsimCDFS, diddling termination or changing jumper settings (timeout or otherwise) has ever fixed that little "minor" irritation, which currently has me frosted with my current setup. Like I'd ever go through all the hoops necessary to burn, close and finalize a CD or DVD (even if it did accidentally work) using an Amiga. Pfffft.    :mad:

Seriously, anyone want this recordable SCSI Plextor/Plexwriter, whatever it's called POS? Gladly exchange it for a nice read only drive. Wish I never sold my nice read only NEC that worked flawlessly and allowed my system to boot in mere seconds, like a regular Amiga should and would running 3.1.  

I never had any problems using recordable CD drives on any of my Amiga's. I'm using MakeCD for burning CD's without any problems. Here's a tip for y'all:
Don't mount CD0 at the startup-sequence, but only when you need to read/write data from/to a CD (when Workbench is already there). This way it decreases boot-time.

[AmiDude]

But wouldn't that go against the "plug'n'play" philosophy of the Amiga? :rtfm:

I guess you don't understand it entirely... You can hook up a CD player/writer to you Amiga, but only run the CD0 mount file (mine is in "Storage/DosDrivers""} whenever
you really want to use the CD drive. It's got nothing to do with plug 'n play...

[AmiDude]

Even when it's not invoked in Startup-Sequence, my system will still waste at least 32 seconds, diddling itself (the HD LED literally blinks 32 times) before it loads WB with this PlexWriter hooked up. I've tried every possible termination combo on the 2091 and the drive itself. Even upgraded to 7.0 ROMS on the SCSI card, but no change. What I do to help speed things up is keep a CD in the drawer. As soon as it spins up and gets a read, the computer proceeds to boot, shaving lots of time off the "normal" boot process.

I don't have any experience with an 2091/PlexWriter combo, but maybe you should
move over to another SCSI controller and/or CD-player/writer if the system struggles
to recognize the PlexWriter..
I've succesfully mounted CD-writers to my A600/A1200 (PCMCIA CD1200 controller)
and A3000 (external SCSI CD-burner).