boot times and software suspend (Was: Re: [plug] Distro Day !!!)

[Cameron Patrick]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:19:14PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

| Aha. Those things have an onboard Promise ATA/100 controller to 
| suppliment the ATA/66 onboard the via chipset. If you're not using the 
| ATA/100 ports, turn the loading of the Promise BIOS off in your main 
| BIOS and your machine will POST considerably faster.

Hmm... Mine has onboard ATA/100 but no onboard ATA/66.  It has 5 IDE
devices, with two on an offboard ATA/133 card - which does contribute
~10s to the boot time.  It still takes bloody ages between pushing the
power button and the screen coming on though.

Cameron.