Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:28:25 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301224470.309-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <19980930111719.A28064@emsphone.com>
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any chance of this making it into a LINT option? like: options SCSI_DELAY=8000 # Be pessimistic about Joe SCSI device ie. options IDE_DELAY=10000 # Be pessimistic about Joe IDE devices ? urm, on second thought what about some of these things being configurable by the kernel config program at bootup also? seems a bit silly to require this to be compiled in. thanks, Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 30), Alfred Perlstein said: > > why does it take a good 30sec at least to probe the IDE hardware? i > > have ATAPI in the kernel, except for that, the boot squence would be > > blazing fast. > > > > if i boot and someone walks past the computer i usually get asked: > > "it locked up?" > > > > i don't see anything in LINT to shorten the time it takes to probe > > the IDE devices, any suggestions? > > /sys/i386/isa/wd.c, around line 105. Change the TIMEOUT value from > 10000 to the 3000-4000 range. That'll cut the max IDE probe time from > 30 seconds down to like 10. > > -Dan Nelson > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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