Re: Weird: 30 sec delay during early boot

Dave Jones
2004-07-05T11:27:58Z

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:21:34AM +0200, David Balazic wrote:
> Wouldn't the BIOS immediatelly respond with a "no such disk" error if int13
> would
> try to access a non-existing disk ?
> This is BIOS land, not hardware land.

The BIOS guys get their stash from a different dealer to the hardware guys.
Screwups happen. It could just be yet another 'interesting' interpretation
of specifications.

Dave