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"Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> writes:

> Now the system hangs for about 20 seconds at the BIOS drive detection,
> and at the FBSD atapi controller detection.

Are you using ATAPICAM?  If so, it's probably the SCSI settling.
That's adjustable in the kernel configuration.