Re: IDE-flash device and hard disk on same controller

[Helge Hafting]

Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 
> Oh and it is only useful for borken things like LINBIOS and other
> braindead systems like ARM that violate the 31 second rule of POST.
> 
31s of POST is uselessly slow.  Perhaps it is needed when
the drives _are_ spinning up, but not for the common
case of rebooting to activate a new kernel
(or reset button when the dev-kernel hung.)  The disk
is spinning already in those cases, and there should 
be no bootup delay.

Helge Hafting