OS 3.9 crazy boot time????

[bbond007]

Just *after* I paid and he shipped, the seller over at AmiBay disclosed the following to me:[/url]

Thanks for any insight you can offer.

That is a awesome A1200! I saw that on AMIBAY and wanted it  

I have 2 SATA ports that I have connected to eSATA ports, if I forget to turn on my external devices the FastATA driver will pause for a short while. I think the 4xIDE thing I had before was the same way. If you have some such device you may want to run the configuration tool for it and make sure to just save the settings. You can also just disable the driver in the startup-sequence and see if that improves your boot time but that will disable potentially all but your "System" partition.

Oops, I typed all that and realized you only had a 1GB CF. Still you may have  a 4xIDE adapter looking for a HD that the previous owner removed

You could always just make new CF card. 1GB is way too small... 4GB is really what you want. I would suggest installing ClassicWB ADV or ADVSP and OS 3.1.

http://classicwb.abime.net/index.htm

[bbond007]

Between the IDE timeout, multiple drive controllers, kickstart reboot and too large background image, my 4000 is in similar shape.

I'd bet you could trim that down without a lot of problem.

Not only that but he could be having multiple reboots with Setpatch, LoadModule, PrepareEmul, etc...

[bbond007]

In that case he will need to use blizkick if his accelerator supports it. Have been using it for a long time. Great program

Yeah, I'm using BlizKick with modules for shapeshifter, hsmathlibs, noclick, bblank and my favorite, the A1000 jingle!

also, this program is pretty cool

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/BootPicture

that way you can at least see a nice amiga logo instead of staring at nothing...

I just was counting like one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand (not very accurate) but from cold boot mine takes around 35 seconds and I have a FastATA and a 060...