OT:DVD/RW combo drives

[don't look]

I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive. It's the only ata
drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.
The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.Seems like it adds
almost a minute to boot time.It won't finish booting until the drive spins
down.
Is this typical?

 

[Rod Speed]

I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive.
It's the only ata drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.

The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.
Seems like it adds almost a minute to boot time.It won't
finish booting until the drive spins down.
Is this typical?

Nope.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive. It's the only ata
drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0
My Hard drive is a WD 1600js sata II on SATA 0.
The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.Seems like it adds
almost a minute to boot time.It won't finish booting until the drive spins
down.
Is this typical?

Not really. Unless you have a) enabled CD/DVD boot and b) have a CD/DVD
in the drive which looks bootable. In that case the booting is
handed over to the bootcode on the CD/DVD and the system can do
nothing about that. If the bootcode needs a minute to decide that
the CD/DVD is not really bootable, then that is it.

Advice: Disable boot from CD/DVD in teh BIOS. You can re-enable
it should you need it in the future.

Arno

 

[Andy]

Jumper the Acer as master.

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:46:20 GMT, "don't look" <don't

 

[Mike Tomlinson]

I have an Acer DUW1616ARR Dual layer DVD\RW-CD\RW drive. It's the only ata
drive on my system and it's set as slave on IDE 0

Bad move. Set it as master.

The DVD drive is holding up the whole system at boot up.Seems like it adds
almost a minute to boot time.It won't finish booting until the drive spins
down.

Almost certainly because the drive is jumpered as slave.

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[don't look]

Ah here it is.Thanks Andy,did the trick. Cut boot time by more than half.
Couldn't find this post on the AT&T server,but here it is in Verizon server.