Fast starts...

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Mon Dec 9 20:37:01 CET 2002


Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-linuxbios at benshaw.com> writes:

> > yes, you can put IDE-FLASH in a conventional BIOS and still wait for 5
> > minutes in some cases.
> 
> Or in my particular application, forever.  <grumbles about stupid BIOSes that 
> won't let you force drive parameters and don't wait long enough for the CF to 
> respond>

It probably means the BIOS is depending on the RDRY signal which many
CF drives don't actually set.

Eric




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