post delay

Hello Group,
I have an old clone with a Celeron 300, and AMI BIOS.
When I enter BIOS Setup, it tells me:
AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY - VERSION 1.20
I have an 8GB HDD as primary master,
a 2.1 GB HDD as secondary master,
and a CDROM as secondary slave.

During post, there is about a 20 second delay while the drives are detected.
The computer continues to load the OS (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p4).
During device detection there is about a 20 second delay during the
detection of the atapi controller.
All drives are detected properly, and I can read and write to them.

If I make the 2.1GB HDD the primary master and the 8GB HDD the secondary
master, there is no delay, either in post or during device detection while
loading the OS.

What might be the cause of this delay, and what can I do to avoid it?

TIA,
Charles

"Charles Howse" wrote in message
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Hello Group,
I have an old clone with a Celeron 300, and AMI BIOS.
When I enter BIOS Setup, it tells me:
AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY - VERSION 1.20
I have an 8GB HDD as primary master,
a 2.1 GB HDD as secondary master,
and a CDROM as secondary slave.

During post, there is about a 20 second delay while the drives are
detected.
The computer continues to load the OS (FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p4).
During device detection there is about a 20 second delay during the
detection of the atapi controller.
All drives are detected properly, and I can read and write to them.

If I make the 2.1GB HDD the primary master and the 8GB HDD the secondary
master, there is no delay, either in post or during device detection while
loading the OS.

What might be the cause of this delay, and what can I do to avoid it?

I had the drive jumpered for 'dual master' when it was the only drive on the
primary channel, and should have not been jumpered at all.