Re: [hatari-devel] Preparing release 2.3

[Anders Eriksson <ae@xxxxxx>]

On 2020-10-12 17:45, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> Le 12/10/2020 à 17:36, Thomas Huth a écrit :
> > On 12/10/2020 17.15, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Eero, what else do you wish to include before 2.3 is relased ?
> >
> > IIRC Eero mentioned that Hatari now boots slower in Falcon mode if no IDE
> > drive is attached. I guess it's because TOS 4 is now always scanning 
> > the IDE
> > bus for devices (and thus waits until a timeout occurs), while it was
> > skipping the test before due to the bus errors.
> > Unfortunately, I currently don't have much spare time, but I assume 
> > that's
> > the same behavior as on an original Falcon. We could maybe add a TOS 
> > patch
> > in this case to decrease the timeout, but I'm currently very short in 
> > spare
> > time, so I currently cannot work on this topic.
>
> Can't really have a look either :(
Back in the day, Green Tommy (greenious) solved this by making a floppy 
bootsector that got rid of the IDE wait (and memory test) to speed up 
booting on IDE-less machines a great deal.

If it's of any use, here's a link to the software which writes the 
bootsector:

http://files.dhs.nu/files_util/fastbt04.zip


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Anders Eriksson
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