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Re: A2090a <> GVP (transfering drives)

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From: Sascha Picchiantano
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 16:29
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Hello! On 11-Aug-95 13:47:58 you wrote about Re: A2090a <> GVP (transfering drives). This is what I have to say about it: 

>> Good, did it. Works fine. Exept for one thing... I use the 2090a to boot
>> my system (I have WB on a 20 meg MFM drive). Now since I have both
>> controllers in there, the machine takes AGES to start booting. I guess
>> this is because both controllers are autoboot.

>> Is there a way I can speed this up? It's annoying...

> If you set your GVP card to NOT autoboot, you can then put the gvpscsi and
> gvpscsi.info file in your SYS:Expansion drawer, and it will not try to
> autoboot from the GVP card. Edit your SYS:S/Startup-Sequence and change the
> line that says:
> Binddrivers
> to:
> Run > nil: < nil: Binddrivers

Ok, I did that and it works. Booting is now just as fast as it was before.

However, I run into new problems now. If the GVP's autoboot jumper is
removed, and binddrivers is used, my machine seems to recognize the drive
only AFTER the WB has been loaded (after the loadwb command that is).

Because I do a lot of assigns and path commands in the user-startup that
point to the drive on the GVP, this doesn't work anymore.

Is there a way around this? How can I make the machine recognize the drive
before loadwb?

Thanks for your help! Not only the booting has sped up, some other problems
disappeared as well (I had loads of cheksum errors on the GVP drive. They
are gone now :)



bye,

_Sascha Picchiantano (cscheper@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de)
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From: cscheper@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Sascha Picchiantano)
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Subject: Re: A2090a <> GVP (transfering drives)
Date: 13 Aug 1995 16:29:12 GMT
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