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HD Start up delays.
« on: October 11, 2005, 10:02:26 PM »
Is it not using the SCSI or the IDE on MY A4000T that slows down my booting up?

I am using the SCSI III connection on my Accel. leaving the other two unused.

If SCSI, can I terminate it to speed up booting/searching?

J-Golden
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Re: HD Start up delays.
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2005, 10:49:46 PM »
@J-Golden:

Atleast the just the IDE-interface will give you a 30 second boot delay on a normal A4000. Try connecting a working ide-drive that is amiga partitioned and formatted and see if it boots faster. If so the issue is the ide-interface and building one of these will solve your problem.

Oh, just remembered another solution. You can disable the motherboard ide-interface and or scsi-interface by software which will only leave you with one delay - the first time you power up, on the following boots there will be no delay. Until you power it off again ofcourse.

If you have a CyberStormPPC/MK3, this can be done via the accelerators bootmenu ("SCSIPatch" and "NCR SCSIPatch"). If you havent, you can disable atleast the ide-interface via something like this.


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Re: HD Start up delays.
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2005, 06:43:35 AM »
Hmmmm, this brings me back to another project I was looking at.  A user put this http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1108 on his IDE port in his A1200.  I know where to get 40-pin vers. up to 2 gig.  I was planing on getting one so I can:

1) Remove my two intenal SCSI Drives and have all progs
   and data external.

Whick will bring me closer to my goal of...

2) Have a Quiet system

and...

3) Cleaning out cables for better air flow

1 & 3 making it more possible to...

4) have a cooler running system.

and now this will also...

5) speed up startup time...

Wow!  I really need to get on this huh?

Thanks for all the guidence patrik!

J-Golden

PS- here's a retailer that lists them...

http://www.psism.com/mini-ide-drive.htm
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