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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:28:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
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Subject: Re: Long IDE probes?
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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.
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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
> 


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