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don't look
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:19 am Post subject: OT:DVD/RW combo drives |
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I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive. It's the only ata
drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.
The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.Seems like it adds
almost a minute to boot time.It won't finish booting until the drive spins
down.
Is this typical? |
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Rod Speed
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:19 am Post subject: Re: OT:DVD/RW combo drives |
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don't look <don't look@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive.
It's the only ata drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.
The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.
Seems like it adds almost a minute to boot time.It won't
finish booting until the drive spins down.
Is this typical?
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Nope. |
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Arno Wagner
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:47 am Post subject: Re: OT:DVD/RW combo drives |
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Previously don't look <don't look@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive. It's the only ata
drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.
The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.Seems like it adds
almost a minute to boot time.It won't finish booting until the drive spins
down.
Is this typical?
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Not really. Unless you have a) enabled CD/DVD boot and b) have a CD/DVD
in the drive which looks bootable. In that case the booting is
handed over to the bootcode on the CD/DVD and the system can do
nothing about that. If the bootcode needs a minute to decide that
the CD/DVD is not really bootable, then that is it.
Advice: Disable boot from CD/DVD in teh BIOS. You can re-enable
it should you need it in the future.
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Andy
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:50 am Post subject: Re: OT:DVD/RW combo drives |
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Jumper the Acer as master.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:46:20 GMT, "don't look" <don't
look@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive. It's the only ata
drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.
The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.Seems like it adds
almost a minute to boot time.It won't finish booting until the drive spins
down.
Is this typical?
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Mike Tomlinson
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don't look
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: Re: OT:DVD/RW combo drives |
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Ah here it is.Thanks Andy,did the trick. Cut boot time by more than half.
Couldn't find this post on the AT&T server,but here it is in Verizon server.
"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Jumper the Acer as master.
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:46:20 GMT, "don't look" <don't
look@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive. It's the only
ata
drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.
The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.Seems like it
adds
almost a minute to boot time.It won't finish booting until the drive
spins
down.
Is this typical?
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