Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:09:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Boot Message-ID: <20030818110708.N320@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> In-Reply-To: <20030818145438.8F3085D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030818145438.8F3085D04@ptavv.es.net>
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[CC list trimed] 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/ >
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