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Re: A2090 SCSI vs Video contention - here we go again!

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From: Marco Papa
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 19:38
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In article <5524@cbmvax.UUCP| andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
|In article <14146@oberon.USC.EDU| papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
||My question is as follows:  what if you've one of the "autoboot" devices
||like the GVP board or the A2090A? With the GVP one can have a single
||partition, ALL of it FFS and still boot from it.  So the FFS is up 
||even before FastMemFirst can ever be run.
|
|There are 2 possible solutions to this:
|
|1) Set your GVP hard disk to automatically add a minimum number
|of buffers when it fire up; 5 would be about right.  Then
|add the rest of the buffers via your startup-sequence (Addbuffers).

I guess I should do AddBuffers FFS: AFTER FastMemFirst, right?

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: A2090 SCSI vs Video contention - here we go again!
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