OT:DVD/RW combo drives

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?

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?

Nope.

Previously 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?

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.

Arno

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?
>

In article <MauYh.374885$5j1.169135@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
don't look <don't@look.?.att.net> writes

>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

Bad move. Set it as master.

> 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.

Almost certainly because the drive is jumpered as slave.

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Ah here it is.Thanks Andy,did the trick. Cut boot time by more than half.
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"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
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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:
>
> >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?
> >
>