Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:39:47 +0200 From: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: stable <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: khera@kciLink.com Subject: Re: shorter boot time? Message-ID: <20000517173946.A1117@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <14626.45916.600074.906028@onceler.kcilink.com> References: <20000516173854.A9898@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <007301bfbf74$53bd9c30$411415d1@haus> <14625.44940.974136.577012@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000517095751.A453@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <14626.45916.600074.906028@onceler.kcilink.com>
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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:57:32AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "MT" == Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> writes: > > MT> I have a machine with SCSI disk, but IDE Cdrom, so i cannot remove > MT> the ata driver. Well, it pauses for a very long time probing IDE disks. > MT> I have not found any way to reduce this delay. Under 3.4, there was no such > MT> problem. > > Just remove the devices that don't exist. That is, if your CDRom is > disk0 on second controller, remove first controller and the disk1 > device on the second controller. Then it only looks for the one disk > on the one controller. > Of course i have done that, to absolutely no avail. This was the trick i used with the wcd driver in FreeBSD 3.3 and which worked then. There was also an ide_delay option or a think like that, but it seems there is no more any way to reduce the probe time. On my laptop which has an ide disk, the probe with ata is immediate and the boot very fast. -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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