Hello from Gregg C Levine Steve? How so? How did you physically connect the CF card to your IDE bus? I know a number of adapters exist to enable that feature, and I know that the 2.4 series contains the MTD (Memory Technology Drivers) functions directly, but after that, I'm lost. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phrase. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve M. Gehlbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:09 AM Subject: RE: Re[2]: DOC vs. IDE
> >> So DoC _IS_ faster than IDE? If this is the case, why should it be > >> that mounting it with /dev/hda1 as root would make for a faster boot? > >> By my logic, I would think that having /boot and /root on a DoC would > >> make it faster. > >> > > >DoC _IS_NOT_ faster than IDE. IDE HD has the problem it need to spin up > >before taking any command while DoC does not. This spin up time delays > >you booting speed. On the other hand, once spun up IDE HD is much faster > >than DoC. > > >Ollie > > I've been loading the Linux kernel from CompactFlash (CF) (raw image) in > /dev/hdc1, and then mount the root disk in /dev/hda1, and this is pretty > fast. I shortened the delays in the IDE routine since the CF doesn't need > spin up time. We really need an "intelligent" routine to find when an IDE > device is ready rather than a pure time delay. > > -Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
