Scanning IDE drives

[satanas]

When I start my computer and it checks my system ram, detects my video card and so on it also says "Scanning IDE drives" but the thing is it never finds anything. So my question is how do I disable so it doesn't scan for the IDE drives?

If I can remove this it would make my system start up about 15 seconds faster.

Thanks in advance.

 

[pIII_Man]

Most computers do this when starting up, my motherboard allows me to preset what ide drives are present and if i do that it will not scan for drives on startup, if your bios does not have this option many have a quick startup feature that may make bootup a bit faster.

 

[zwaarst]

your ide bios settings are on "auto". select the device that is on each ide port, en for the ones that are empty select "none"

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[TheMASK]

What motherboard do u have? If u dont want to disable the Scanning of IDE drives in the BIOS, u can just press F4 key when its scanning for the IDE drives. It takes a long time scanning the IDE drives only when only ond device is connected per channel. Like if u have only one HDD connected to the Primary channel as the Primary Master and have enabled to check for Primary Slave too in the same channel, then it takes a long time. u can just disable checking for the Primary Slave (or the secondary slave as the case may be). that wud fast-up ur boot sequence.

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[Crashman]

You're supposed to be able to do this by disabling the IDE controller, but that never worked on my Soyo board...

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