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From: anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent James Anderson)
Subject: Re: GVP 2 Boot
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 00:55:30 GMT
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gigio@ALESSIA.DEI.UNIPD.IT (GianLuigi Nusca) writes:



>	I have noticed that GVP 2 hd controller takes about 15
>seconds from amiga reset to the beginning of the boot.
>	Is this true? If so, can someone explain me why?

>				gigio@alessia.dei.unipd.it

After I got the FaaaST ROMS upgrade to my GVP controller (part of the series II
enhancements to GVP's original design) I also started experiencing a much
greater boot time...

A call to GVP tech support proved rewarding...

After you format (reformat in my case) the drive with the slick GVP installation
software go back into it and choose manual installation.  On the screen that follows
you must (basically) tell the controller which SCSI device is the last one that
must be auto-mounted.  In this way you will cut off loads of boot up time caused
by the (rather intelligent IMHO) drive searching for the last SCSI device and
automagically auto-mounting everything on its way.  Hopefully, you'll be able
to configure your SCSI devices as low as possible so that it'll only have to look
at a few before you're up and running.

Most likely this isn't clear enough to complete the procedure but it provides the
jist of the explanation as I know it and anyone wishing to make the change can
call good 'ol GVP as I did.

Hope this helps,
-Beej

