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From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> > From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
> >
> > Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of
> > > Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus:
> > >
> > >>My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it
> > >>takes a while to get the list of devices from it.  However, I've never
> > >>looked into it any more than that.
> > >
> > > I've always presumed it to be a question of timing out probes to the
> > > drives; it only ever happens on IDE controllers with no devices attached
> > > to 'em.  I habitually just disable the controller channels that are empty
> > > (or, in the case of my SCSI systems, just yank ATA support altogether).
> >
> > Could be.  This machine is pretty bare-bones.  Single ATA HDD and nothing
> > on the secondary controller.  I never really considered that, but it makes
> > sense that probes on the secondary controller would take the full timeout
> > value if there was nothing to respond.
>
> Nope. My system has disks on both ATA controllers with hard drives as
> the master for each channel. One channel also has the CD drive as
> the slave.

Does the hard drive that's on it's own have a "Single" jumper
configuration option available?

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >