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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Will this work (two IDE drives, DOS and *BSD)? Message-ID: <CCA9t4.us@veda.is> Date: 24 Aug 93 21:46:02 GMT References: <CC73xF.8n0@rex.uokhsc.edu> <1993Aug23.164125.1497@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <MYCROFT.93Aug23224109@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Aug24.200723.26095@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 15 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >As to the load from another, drive, yes, Julian's boot blocks support you >typing in the drive and partition (if you already know it and enjoy typing >in that syntax) -- but you'd have to be the best typist in the world to get >it typed in on my machine in the timeout period before autoboot. My machine >gives almost 0 delay (50MHz EISA, 0 wait state, 9ms drive on 1742 SCSI). Isn't it enough to type _anything_ in the delay period and then you have as much time as you like for correcting the line before pressing the return key? Surely there is enough time to hit one of the keys (for instance, near the middle of the keyboard) before it auto-defaults to the first disk. -- adam@veda.is