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More info?)
hi kda
thank you for the detailed information
dieter
"kda" <kda@iname.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> One of the things fixed by BIOS 1017 is that when you change drives in
> a swap tray (for rotating backups to various drives in an set of swap
> trays), or when you connect SCSI HDs during boot so you can do a DOS
> based backup to it ... the new BIOS no longer arbitrarily changes the
> order of boot drives.
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> For some of us, that was quite a problem since occasionally, the BIOS
> would decide the new HD should be the "boot drive" and then, since the
> swap drive was in reality only a backup HD ... the boot would fail.
> Then we would have to go back into BIOS and reset the boot order ...
> it was a mess and really needed to be fixed.
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> Maybe the somewhat longer boot time we are noticing is caused by the
> need for the BIOS to accurately sort out the drive array (that is
> where mine now pauses) that is connected and not arbitrarily change
> things around where the new drive becomes the new "boot" drive.
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> Just a guess, but judging from where my BIOS pause occurs, it makes
> some sense.
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> I have also found that if I have a Fire Wire cable plugged into the MB
> but no device (like my camera) attached to the other end of the Fire
> Wire cable ... boot time is MUCH longer.
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> I have also found that if I have my Sony Memory Stick Flash card in
> the USB flash card reader when I boot ... boot time takes almost
> forever (not a problem with CF, SD or other cards). Yet, after the
> boot, the Sony Mem Stick card and reader slot work just fine.
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> So go figure.
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> kda
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> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:17:11 +0200, "Dieter Eckstein"
> <eckstein@bluewin.ch> wrote:
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>>hi
>>after flashing to bios version 1017 booting is very slow.
>>who knows the problem and can help ?
>>thanks
>>dieter
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