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cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Apr 1998 18:15:58 MDT."
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Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 18:20:49 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Hmmmm.  This is very odd - I can't think of any reason why it would
wait, nor does it wait anywhere near that long on my 2 IDE/1 SCSI
drive spambox.

Hmmmmm.  *shug*? :-)

					Jordan
> 
> 
> > Hmmm.  How are these IDE drives connected?
> 
> In any order. I thought I had bad disks (or non-cooperating), so I tried
> every combination possible. I wasted lots o' time :(...
> 
> I finally waited the 3 minutes to get an error message, but none came; it
> was fine!  If I had been patient the first time, I am sure it would have
> worked too.
> 
> Tried w/ 1 drive, 2 drives (MASTER/SLAVE and also 1MASTER/2MASTER).
> 
> Kevin
>  
> > > I am installing STABLE (SNAP 0404), and everytime sysinstall starts up on
> > > boot, it takes over 3 minutes to get through the 'Probing devices, please
> > > wait...' screen. 
> > > 
> > > This as been on 2 totally different machines. What the do have in common:
> > > Fujitsu IDE hard drives, Adaptec SCSI cards (removing does not change
> > > anything), and Award BIOS for PPro. Different mobos (one AT, other ATX;
> > > one Gigabyte, one ASUS).
> > > 
> > > Anyone else find this behavior? Everything runs fine after it times out o
r
> > > whatever. The whole time the hard drives sound like you are doing a 
> > > 'find /usr/ports' :)
> > > 
> > > Kevin
> > > 
> > 
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