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Sascha Picchiantano (cscheper@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote:
: >> 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.

: 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?

Boot from the GVP! Use the RDB stuff for that drive! Make sure the GVP drive
is at id=0. Set reselect "off", sync "on", LastDisk "on", LastLUN "on" and 
LastTarget "on". It should boot like greased lightning!

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