Re: Slow booting

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:50:53 +0000 (GMT)


> type of floppy controller in the system (I don't know which). If you boot
> from a floppy on a <200 MHz system it boots fine, an a >300 MHz system it
> can take 5-10 min to read the image off of the floppy before it starts to
> compress it.

I see the problem on specific floppy controllers - notably the AHA1542 scsi
controller has the problem. Its because we format all our floppies with an
interleave of 1 while DOS tends to use 3 I believe

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