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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 05:23:06 -0700
From:	"Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Slow autocheck

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Hello Everyone,
At one time I had a complaint about the speed (lack thereof) of my bootup. It took about
4 minutes, which I thought was way too long. Steven Levine suggested at I look at the
"Autocheck" portion of my CONFIG.SYS. That was the culprit!

My fix for the problem was to eliminate the Autocheck on all but the boot drive.
Therefore, I had to manually fix any other drive, after the bootup completed, if I had
suffered a dirty shutdown. All of that occurred before I started using JFS (I was using
FAT for the floppy and HPFS for everything else).

I then switched to JFS for every hard drive partition except the boot partition, where I use
HPFS. My bootup takes about 30 seconds and I have no complaints. Below, please
find a copy of the two (2) primary IFS lines from my CONFIG.SYS:

IFS=E:\OS2\JFS.IFS /LW:5,20,4 /AUTOCHECK:* /CACHE:12288
IFS=E:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:EI

My boot partition is E:\
HCM

On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:43:25 -0700, scoug-help@scoug.com wrote:

>> What is to be expected?
>
>My setup is too different from yours to really comment
>here, other than to note that I had to REM out the JFS
>line (or the boot hangs -- but then I don't have any
>JFS partitions anyway), and for HPFS, "AUTOCHK *" is a
>non-starter as well. That probably has some
>connection to the NTFS partitions that are
>interspersed. By specifying just *which* are the HPFS
>partitions to be the concern of AUTOCHK, everything
>proceeds merrily along.
>
>The amount of time AUTOCHK or HPFS.Ifs require to do
>their processing seems to be something outside my
>ability to influence.

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