From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 12:45:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C7837B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [209.224.20.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8329243F85 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nospam@hiltonbsd.com) Received: from [209.224.35.110] (helo=daggar.sbgnet.net) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18o8R6-00008z-00; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:45:53 -0600 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:46:04 -0600 From: Stephen Hilton To: Mike Alich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Devices Delay Message-Id: <20030226144604.3a26e284.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030226102309.02a46fb8@mail.whtech.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030226102309.02a46fb8@mail.whtech.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:30:46 -0500 Mike Alich wrote: > I use to run an ABIT Dual Processor board with 2 1 gig processors on it and > recently upgraded to a single Titan P4 2GIG Celeron single processor board > and I am now having a weird problem and I hope you can help. > > With the old board on boot up the system would say Waiting for SCSI Devices > to Settle before the OS probed out the devices. > > Now after the new board was installed the OS decides to Wait for the SCSI > Devices to settle after all the devices are probed and about 50% of the > time the SCSI devices time out and we have to do another reboot. > > We are running FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE. The SCSI devices I have been referring > to are our Raid 5 drives. We have 4 Cheetah 10K drive on a DPT Raid card. > > I have recompiled the kernel and this has not helped either. Mike, You can control the settle time with this kernel config option: options SCSI_DELAY=3000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI Add this line to your kernel config and set the SCSI_DELAY= to a reasonable option, then rebuild and install the new kernel. HTH Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message