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to: MIKE ROSS
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2003-06-07 22:04:00
subject: Twins IDE or not ?

-=> Quoting MIKE ROSS to Leonard Erickson <=-

 MR> "Leonard Erickson" wrote to "JEAN PARROT" (07
Jun 03  01:11:06)
 MR> --- on the topic of "Twins IDE or not ?"
 
 LE> And you may be *amazaed* at how many instances of some devices show up
 LE> when you check in Safe mode.

 MR> Yep! Probably what I couldn't recall: booting up in "safe mode".
 MR> I think it rebuilds a lot of the drivers or configuration.

More to the point, it lets you make changes that you can't make
otherwise. and it lets you see things like all those old devices it
still thinks it has to check for.

That running the "is this device attached" initialization code for
devices that aren't there anymore is part of what can mess up other devices.


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