Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Slow booting | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:50:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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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