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Subject:	Re: Long Time to recover from System Abort
From:	Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 27 Nov 1995 14:10:11 EST
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On Mon, 27 Nov 1995 10:39:26 -0800 <[log in to unmask]> said:
>> (1)  It takes around 30 minutes to reboot an Emerald on the best of days.
>> It is
>>      one of the slowest beasts in the HP firmament.
>
>Whoever wrote all that selftest garbage that the Emeralds go through clearly
>wanted the system to be impressive to current mainframe users :-)
 
Probably the same guy that wrote the selftest code for the Rev 8 channel
adapters in the 9x0 systems.  When I upgraded to rev 8 (required for SCSI)
the boot time (from "Boot from primary path?" until ISL prompt) went from a
few minutes to 5-10 minutes.
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>

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