From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 11:22:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07710 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 11:22:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07626 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 11:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14086; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:21:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980809132131.A13891@emsphone.com> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:21:31 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mike Reeh , Geoff Ludwiczak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot time References: <19980809173836.AAA14205@ha1.rdc1.bc.wave.home.com@cr649276-a.surrey1.bc.wave.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "Mike Reeh" on Sun Aug 9 10:52:03 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 09), Mike Reeh said: > On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > > I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.7, and I love the Operating System, > > but it's a pain starting it up. It takes quite a while to probe my > > hard drives and cdrom. Is there any way to fix this by maybe > > rebuilding the kernel possibly??? > > I have that problem too.. only has done it w/ 2.2.5+ (didnt do it in > 2.2.1) but if i dont have a slave device connected to my primary ide > controller, it takes what seems like minutes (probably about 1 > minute) to probe the secondary controller.. kind of weird but i just > live with it.. Edit /sys/i386/isa/wd.c, around line 105; change TIMEOUT from 10000 to around 3000 - 4000, then recompile your kernel. That'll cut the probe time by 1/3. Some IDE devices may need more than 3 secs to respond, though, so adjust accordingly. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message