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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> re: i think it crashed.
> 
> why does it take a good 30sec at least to probe the IDE hardware?
> i have ATAPI in the kernel, except for that, the boot squence would be
> blazing fast.

  Don't probe for devices that aren't there.  Very simple, and you get
fast boots all the time.

Tom


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