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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:55:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Peter Brezny <pbrezny@purplecat.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: changing default time kernel waits to find ide devices
Message-ID:  <20010714185501.K4745-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <NCBBILLCPGBGKGJLJKHHKEIKCAAA.pbrezny@purplecat.net>

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From LINT:

#
# This option allow you to override the default probe time for IDE
# devices, to get a faster probe.  Setting this below 10000 violate
# the IDE specs, but may still work for you (it will work for most
# people).
#
options         IDE_DELAY=8000  # Be optimistic about Joe IDE device

Joe Clarke

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Peter Brezny wrote:

> I've got a 4.3-stable system that's got an onboard controller with no drives
> present, and consequently, I've got to wait for the system to time out
> searching for a device on that controller before it will continue to boot
>
> (can't disable that controller in the bios because then it doesn't want to
> boot off my 3ware card)
>
> Is there a way to change the amount of time the kernel waits to detect a
> device?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter Brezny
> purplecat.net
>
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