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From: Ross Vandegrift <ross@willow.seitz.com>
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> on a AMD 1200Mhz/512Meg ram, which seemed odd.

Is your motherboard one with a Promise Ultra100 controller integrated?

If so, you can shave that time off by recomiling your kernel with
"Special UDMA Feature" and then disabling the Ultra100 bios.  You should
still be able to get UDMA without loading the annoying BIOS.

Ross Vandegrift
ross@willow.seitz.com
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