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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
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Subject: Re: Long IDE probes?
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> > > > IDE by definition is probed by the BIOS before boot.  Either the disk is
> > > > there or it is not, and you don't get out of POST and to Boot until that's
> > > > determined.  Therefore, a long wait there is COMPLETELY pointless.
> > > 
> > >   Huh?  First of all, more than disks can be put on IDE, and the BIOS
> > > doesn't know anything about that.  Most BIOSes don't probe IDE at all, but
> > > newer ones do it to avoid static settings in the CMOS.
> > 
> > The hell it doesn't.
> > 
> > I've got several machines with IDE hardware in them.  All of them find
> > things like CDROMs during the boot sequence (before loading an OS).
> 
>   Yes, newer machines.  The BIOS doesn't need to do that.  I have a CDROM
> in an older machine here, and the BIOS doesn't grok it at all.  Basically,
> the BIOS display is informational only (except for the boot disk).

urm, (sounding like a broken record again)

how about a defualt option in GENERIC for the long delay that people can
tweak if they so desire?

-Alfred


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