Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> Martin Rosenfeld wrote:
>>     
>>> Can anyone estimate the increase in speed of getting eCs up and running 
>>> from a digital medium (card, plug  in, whatever) compared to doing it 
>>> from harddrive? Program loading includes reading files from medium, 
>>> checking hardware and all those mysterious waits.
>>>
>>> Martin Rosenfeld
>>>       
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> Despite all the M$ hype (BS!), booting from Magnetic media is still a 
>> lot faster than from any (consumer-priced!) digital media - see my 
>> posting earlier on os2hardware re the latest, greatest (anticipated 
>> initially at $30/GB) - but fantastic speeds on PCI-e!
>>
>> With a (BIG-floppy formatted to 30MB image) 2GB USB-stick I managed to 
>> go from start of boot to Full-screen DFSee running in 22 seconds, about 
>> 6 months ago.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
> Mike,
>
> thanks for the reply. I don't mean to be dense, but you seem to be 
> contradicting yourself. By magnetic media I assume you mean harddisk or 
> floppy. You say you booted to full screen from a digital device in22 
> seconds. It takes me about 90 seconds to boot, including a mysterious 45 
> second delay where no disk activity seems to be happening.
>
> Martin
>   
Hi Martin,

No contradiction really - I hadn't even considered the option of 
comparing digital to a floppy-boot,  as I don't know of any 
FDD-controllers faster than about 1 or maybe 2 megaBITS per second.

I incorrectly said a FS-session - should have said to DFSee running from 
the command-line aka AltF1+F2 condition, not a FS-session. Makes a lot 
of difference to boot-speed if no WPS involved. Off HDD under same 
conditions the magnetic is faster than the digital - unless you have a 
Solid-State-DISK - which isn't the same as a USB-connected Flash 
Drive/Card - the SSD has an IDE/SATA interface. Also depends upon what 
(if any Network drivers you are loading at boot-time -- in the case of 
the 22-second boot - which is good to fix problems with FAT/HPFS or JFS 
volumes, the actual number of files is very low - no LAN or TCP/IP loaded!

Have you checked that in your setup.cmd [lives in :\mptn\bin] 
on the line similar to the following :

dhcpstrt -i lan0

that it's terminated with " -d 0" like the following:

dhcpstrt -i lan0 -d 0

"-d 0" means that dhcpstrt will not stop and wait for the IP allocation, 
but will continue straight on, uninterrupted. Default wait time is 60 
seconds, or until connection available.

At what stage does the big delay occur?
Just before the SNAP splash screen?
Whilst setting up the FAT32 cache etc?

Once SDD drop in price to where they're only single-digit times more 
expensive than magnetic, there'll be a greater take-up of the technology.

To go back to the previous topic of yours what did you mean about the 
MAC vs, the Broadcom? Did you really mean to say a "PCI-NIC in a slot" 
in addition to the on-board Broadcom NetXtreme, that the other RJ45 
socket belonged to?

Regards,
Mike


 
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