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8890 BIOS update 9-19-03 - Page 3

post #41 of 43
10/25/03 at 8:15am
How many times do you boot up?

The need for a disk scan is an indirect result of the 8890's being able to support RAID. The disk scan is not done by the BIOS.

If you have the ATA driver installed (the other floppy supplied with your system) it has to do a scan for disks each time during boot because the BIOS, in being able to support both RAID and non-RAID (ATA mode) is not able to make any assumptions about the disk configuration ahead of time.

RAID requires a driver to be loaded during Windows boot. Because of this, the ATA driver is forced to scan for disks when it is loaded. Hence your delay.

Sorry kiddo, the delay is there to stay because some of us speed freaks want to enable RAID.
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post #42 of 43
10/25/03 at 9:06am
In my desktop's BIOS I have the option to select Auto/None on primary master/slave, secondary master/slave. I was thinking of a option like that.
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post #43 of 43
10/25/03 at 9:14am
I assume your desktop does not support RAID (particularly for boot disks).

It would be nice but as I pointed out because of the dual nature of the 8890's we are stuck with the current setup.
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