Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:45:36 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Boot Message-ID: <3F40CA70.3000101@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030818031945.GB65803@over-yonder.net> References: <20030817102318.69e094fc.aelfgar@aelfgar.com> <3F3FCFB2.3050900@potentialtech.com> <20030818031945.GB65803@over-yonder.net>
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Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of > Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus: > >>My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it >>takes a while to get the list of devices from it. However, I've never >>looked into it any more than that. > > I've always presumed it to be a question of timing out probes to the > drives; it only ever happens on IDE controllers with no devices attached > to 'em. I habitually just disable the controller channels that are empty > (or, in the case of my SCSI systems, just yank ATA support altogether). Could be. This machine is pretty bare-bones. Single ATA HDD and nothing on the secondary controller. I never really considered that, but it makes sense that probes on the secondary controller would take the full timeout value if there was nothing to respond. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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