From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 12:52:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA19847 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:52:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from send1b.yahoomail.com (send1b.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA19781 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:51:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jservice@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <19980106205109.516.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Received: from [192.75.134.6] by send1b; Tue, 06 Jan 1998 12:51:09 PST Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 12:51:09 -0800 (PST) From: James R R Service Reply-To: jservice@oht.hydro.on.ca Subject: Can I speed up probing the second hard disk controller? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My 200 MHz Pentium has two disk controllers (wd0 and wd1) with a hard disk on wd0 and the cdrom drive as a slave on wd1. It takes between 20 and 30 seconds to probe and find wd1 and wcd0. Because of ribbon cable lengths and the physical layout inside my PC I can't move the cdrom drive cable to use the first controller. Is there a boot flag/kernel configuration I can try to eliminate this long probing delay in FreeBSD v2.2.2? == James (Jim) R.R. Service Internet: jservice@oht.hydro.on.ca Ontario Hydro Technologies jservice@yahoo.com 800 Kipling Ave. - Room KB223 FAX: (416) 207-6954 Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M8Z 5S4 _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com