[hatari-devel] Re: Boot time

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/06/2013 21:48, Roger Burrows wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2013 at 20:54, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > As to EmuTOS bootup taking a long time with accurate FDC emulation,
> > that's a known EmuTOS issue.  With floppy, it takes 4.6s, without
> > floppy, a pathetic 34.6s.  Normal TOS takes in both cases about 3 secs.
> FYI, TOS 1.04 on my 1040ST takes about 1 minute to boot if there is no floppy
> in the internal drive, versus about 4 seconds with a floppy inserted [in both
> cases, no external floppy/hard drive connected].  That's why every ST owner
> learned to always put a formatted (write protected for safety) floppy in the
> drive when booting.
>
> Roger

Yes, I confirm, booting my tos 1.02 520 STF without a floppy is also 
very long.

Eero, I dont't see what you call "normal tos" ? Maybe more recent TOSes 
(STE ones for example) booted faster when no disk was detected, but all 
ST owners (who were mainly STF owners, as this was the most selling 
model) certainly experimented slow boot without any disk in drive.

Or do you mean no floppy, but a HD used a main boot drive ?

Nicolas