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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:45:29 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        "Odhiambo Washington" <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
Cc:        "FBSD-Q" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Strange device probe behavior
Message-ID:  <005e01c07e41$0608d4f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <20010114122845.A400@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>

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> I accepted all types of flaming on this - the answer in most important.
> Below I attach the output of dmesg:
> This HP Netserver E60 box was running 3.5-STABLE. A few days back I
> decided to push it to 4.2-STABLE. Now some strange device (not quite
> strange though) takes the kernel about 15 seconds to probe, just as it
> leaves the for SCSI devices to settle..hmmm..I never saw this with
> 3.5-STABLE, so I was just wondering if maybe I missed some option when I
> compiled my 4.x kernel...
> I have indicated using ^^^^^ the device that scares my life....
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ### DMESG OUTPUT ##
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x1860-0x186f at device 4.1
on pci0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is where 15 or so seconds lapse before the probe continues!!

I have a FreeBSD 3.2 box which waits for 15 seconds after detecting the IDE
controller, and on similar hardware SCO OpenServer 5.0.[456] does the same
thing.

I believe it has to do with how the probe works.

--
Matt Emmerton



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