Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:30:49 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAng hangs with kernel from september 15 Message-ID: <xzpr82fg3sm.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <200309170626.h8H6QNrM008812@spider.deepcore.dk> (Soren Schmidt's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:26:23 %2B0200 (CEST)") References: <200309170626.h8H6QNrM008812@spider.deepcore.dk>
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Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> writes: > Well, the ATA driver has just grown more standard compliant :) > You *must* hang around for 31secs to wait for slow devices to come ready, > according to the ATA specs. Now I've gone to great length before to > get around this by using clever heuristics, and I'm getting there again, > but there are *so* many crappy devices out there that it takes time > to accomodate them all.=20 Is there any way you can postpone the device initialization so you can do them in paralell? Or make the length of the wait configurable, like SCSI_DELAY? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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