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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:11:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        scottl@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Abnormal long pause in boot
Message-ID:  <200401052011.i05KB87E012113@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040105124305.L22447@pooker.samsco.home>

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On  5 Jan, Scott Long wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Don Lewis wrote:
>> On  5 Jan, Doug White wrote:
>> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:
>> >
>> >> I rebuilt my CURRENT kernel last week and ever since then I was noticing
>> >> a very long pause in the boot that wasn't in there before. Here is the
>> >> dmesg chunk on a boot -v:
>> >
>> > Some ATA controllers need some extra handholding and can take a while to
>> > probe.
>> >
>> > The stuff after the delay is firewire though, so it might be FW trying to
>> > initialize the channel.
>>
>> My laptop has this problem.  The delay goes away if I remove firewire
>> from the kernel.  I don't have anything to plug into the port anyway.
> 
> Maybe it is the SCSI subsystem waiting to probe for SCSI-over-Firewire
> devices?  Do you have the sbp, scbus, etc, devices in your kernel?

Yup.  I'm running GENERIC plus a few tweaks.  There's probably lots of
stuff I could toss.



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