soundworks
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Having gotten a JackHammer and SCSI2SD humming along nicely on my 840av I'm curious to learn if there's anything I can do to accelerate a cold boot.
I'm running 7.6.1 and *restarting* with extensions off takes about 24 seconds.
But a *cold boot* also with extensions off takes 69 seconds, during which the floppy drive bumps and any image appears on the screen after the first 48 seconds.
BTW, this 840av has 128 MB of RAM and 2 MB of VRAM and for the purposes of these tests I removed the Nubus cards and zapped PRAM. Only devices attached are a SCSI2SD v6 and physical floppy drive.
Does this sound about right to you all? I am quite invested in this box... I rely on it for old schoo MIDI software and working with my old samplers (via SCSI and RS422). I beta tested the early digidesign stuff while at CCRMA (in case anyone is familiar). Also, my time at Infinite Loop R&D during this era was not focused on Macintosh so it's fun to learn what I missed.
I'm running 7.6.1 and *restarting* with extensions off takes about 24 seconds.
But a *cold boot* also with extensions off takes 69 seconds, during which the floppy drive bumps and any image appears on the screen after the first 48 seconds.
BTW, this 840av has 128 MB of RAM and 2 MB of VRAM and for the purposes of these tests I removed the Nubus cards and zapped PRAM. Only devices attached are a SCSI2SD v6 and physical floppy drive.
Does this sound about right to you all? I am quite invested in this box... I rely on it for old schoo MIDI software and working with my old samplers (via SCSI and RS422). I beta tested the early digidesign stuff while at CCRMA (in case anyone is familiar). Also, my time at Infinite Loop R&D during this era was not focused on Macintosh so it's fun to learn what I missed.