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Originally Posted by thomas
There is a "last drive" flag in the RDB. If it is set, the driver stops scanning for further drives.
This is meant to speed up the boot process, mainly for SCSI. If you have a slow-responding device like a CD drive or a tape drive with a higher SCSI ID, the machine boots faster if those drives are not examined for partitions. They don't have partitions anyway.
The mechanism also made it into the IDE scsi.device. If you partition a single harddrive, then HDToolbox sets the flag and if you add a second HDD later, it is ignored unless you run HDToolbox and let it clear the flag.
I find it rather strange that rdbtool sets this flag, though.
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Very interesting.
I don't see any mention to "last drive" on the rdbtool docs:
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https://amitools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/rdbtool.html
So maybe the author mistakenly forced it on?