[ltp] 390E long floppy seek time at boot

[Nate Bargmann]

* Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net> [2003 Feb 10 16:50 -0600]:
> * Rob Smith <r_a_smith3530@sbcglobal.net> [2003 Feb 10 16:22 -0600]:
> > FDISK /MBR?
> > 
> > Rob Smith
> 
> ???
> 
> In all my years of dealing with PCs, I'm not sure how that will help
> when it's the floppy LED that is on for 35 Sec.  The HDD is fine, near
> as I can tell.
> 
> Please enlighten me!

One should not have to reply to one's previous inane remarks.

That didn't fix it directly.  In fact trying to run FDISK from A:
resulted in a drive not ready error.  So, trusty Linux to the rescue.
mkdosfs was able to format the /dev/hda1 partition (hda2 is swap and
hda3 is Linux).  Then the reboot time was reduced remarkably and the HDD
was no longer searching on boot.  I was able to do FORMAT C: and SYS C:
from the PC-DOS boot floppy and all seems to be working well.

Thanks for the clue.

- Nate >>

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