Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:19:45 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Boot Message-ID: <20030818031945.GB65803@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <3F3FCFB2.3050900@potentialtech.com> References: <20030817102318.69e094fc.aelfgar@aelfgar.com> <3F3FCFB2.3050900@potentialtech.com>
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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). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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