On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Antony Mawer wrote: > Another "me too". We saw this and wound up removing the floppy drive > from the systems in order to avoid this lengthy delay on boot - we > weren't using them anyway and it saved a whole $5 or so on the > hardware costs... ;-) > > I seem to recall it was not purely a 6.x thing - as I'm sure that we > have plenty of 6.x machines with FDDs that don't exhibit this hang - > but it was only newer Intel motherboards (I think 9xx series onwards) > that we were seeing the issue on...
I'll try disabling it in device.hints and see how it goes. I don't really want to remove the FDD because it is needed in the event we need to reinstall to load the aacu driver from Adaptec :-/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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