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Date:      Wed, 5 May 1999 21:03:39 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        me@T-F-I.freeserve.co.uk
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: slow detection of Hitachi CDR-7930
Message-ID:  <19990505210339.B261@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <3730866c.4158740@smtp.freeserve.net>; from John Murphy on Wed, May 05, 1999 at 06:16:06PM %2B0000
References:  <3730866c.4158740@smtp.freeserve.net>

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On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 06:16:06PM +0000, John Murphy wrote:
> trivial but-
> 
> It's the only drive on the secondary IDE controller,
> set to master, but the freeBSD (3.0-RELEASE) boot takes
> 30 sec. to detect it. This was the same with both the
> generic and a custom kernel. Win95 boots in less time!
> 
> Not sure if it's related but the K CD player core dumps.
> 

kscd core dumping is usually because it uses /dev/matcd0 as the
default device (God knows why, there can't be many of those around
nowadays).

> Would making it secondary slave help?
> 
> Is it simply being detected or is there initialization to do?
> 
> I thought that little or no hardware detection would be
> necessary with a custom kernel.
> 
> 	from the kernel config
> 
> options		INET		#InterNETworking
> options		FFS		#Berkeley Fast Filesystem
> options		FFS_ROOT	#FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
> options		MSDOSFS		#MSDOS Filesystem
> options		"CD9660"	#ISO 9660 Filesystem
> options		"CD9660_ROOT"	#CD-ROM usable as root. "CD9660" req'ed
> options		"COMPAT_43"	#Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
> 
> controller	wdc0	at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
> disk		wd0	at wdc0 drive 0
> disk		wd1	at wdc0 drive 1
> 
> controller	wdc1	at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 vector wdintr
> disk		wd2	at wdc1 drive 0
> disk		wd3	at wdc1 drive 1
> 
> device		wcd0		#IDE CD-ROM
> options		ATAPI		#Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus
> options		ATAPI_STATIC	#Don't do it as an LKM
> 
> 	and from dmesg
> 
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-DTTA-351010>
> wd0: 9671MB (19807200 sectors),
>  19650 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> wd0: ATA INQUIRE valid = 0007,
>  dmamword = 0007, apio = 0003, udma = 0407
> wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <ST5850A>
> wd1: 815MB (1669248 sectors),
>  1656 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> wd1: ATA INQUIRE valid = 0003,
>  dmamword = 0107, apio = 0003, udma = 0000
> 
> <10 sec. delay here.>
> 
> wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
> 
> <20 sec. delay here.>
> 
> wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <HITACHI CDR-7930/1023>,
>  removable, accel, dma, iordy
> wcd0: 1377Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play,
>  255 volume levels, ejectable tray
> wcd0: no disc inside, unlocked
> BIOS Geometries:
>  0:03fffe3f 0..1023=1024 cylinders,
>    0..254=255 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
>  1:01ff1f3f 0..511=512 cylinders,
>    0..31=32 heads, 1..63=63 sectors
>  0 accounted for
> Device configuration finished.
> 
> -- 
> TIA
> John.
> I *will* upgrade when I get a better connection.
> 
> 
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