On Wednesday 18 December 2002 7:14 am, amol ambekar wrote: > CAN ANYBODY HELP ME > > IS there a diff in speed while booting from floppy and booting > from eprom chip. > > thus booting from eprom increses the speed . > if yes how The boot code in the eprom can be read virtually instantaneusly, whereas the boot code on a floppy takes a finite amount of time to read in - seek time plus data transfer time. I don't use boot floppies, but I suspect this part of the process might take a couploe of seconds. Fron there on in, the speed is the same.
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