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Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:52:27 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Long Boot up Time

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In <3E29FCED.327B19F7@attglobal.net>, on 01/18/03
at 05:18 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:

>3 or 4 drivers that load before HPFS.IFS. The longest one takes about 10
>seconds. Then comes HPFS.IFS. My computer just sits there for the next 8
>minutes.

My guess is that it's looking for drives that do not exist. Exactly what
is your drive configuration? What's connected to what?

Just to be sure that it is the .IFS that's busy, I've attached a copy of
pause.sys. Add a device statement pointing to it right after the IFS
statement for HPFS.IFS. This way we will be sure what is busy.

>I just took a look at my CONFIG.SYS and I had a thought. I notice that I
>have autochecking for my HD partition. I know that it isn't actually
>going through CHKDSK (unless it needs to). Nevertheless, when CHKDSK has
>to be run, it takes a long time. Could the autocheck be the timing
>culprit?

That's not it. More likely HPFS.IFS is invoking OS2DASD.DMD looking for
drives that don't exist. Have you done a full hardware detection since
you last shuffled your disk drive setup?

Also, has the boot up always been slow or is this something new?

Steven

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