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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:34:29 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bootup speed
Message-ID:  <20000817223429.A25702@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000817231506.A76602@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from "j mckitrick" on Thu Aug 17 23:15:06 GMT 2000
References:  <20000817231506.A76602@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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In the last episode (Aug 17), j mckitrick said:
> 
> Lots of people have remarked that 4.x boots much more quickly than 3.x did.
> Where was the speed increase made?

The new ATA code skips missing devices almost instantly, where a system
with no IDE drives could take up to 30 seconds to discover the lack of
devices on 3.0.  That's by far the biggest change.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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