Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:15:54 +0530 From: Chandan Haldar <chandanh@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Boot delay at floppy drive capacity check Message-ID: <440856A2.5000709@gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
My FreeBSD 6.0 Release waits for over 20 seconds with the empty floppy drive LED lit up when it checks the capacities of the storage devices (towards the end of dmesg) at boot. This happens right after the two fixed hard disks ad0 and ad1 checked and before the rest of the USB storage devices are checked for capacity. If I push a floppy disk into the drive it exits the waiting at once and continues. It seems to me there is a retry limit for checking each storage device capacity. Is there a kernel parameter to set to decrease the retry limit for the floppy drive capacity check so that it exits as soon as it fails to probe the capacity of the drive on the first few tries? Any other solution? This isn't a show-stopper, but certainly is an annoyance. Chandan
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?440856A2.5000709>