From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 22:27:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16321 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:27:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA16308 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA17704; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:27:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd017692; Wed Sep 30 22:27:38 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA26027; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:27:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810010527.WAA26027@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 05:27:31 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, karl@Denninger.Net, tom@uniserve.com, dnelson@emsphone.com, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810010236.TAA05209@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 30, 98 07:36:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The "bootable" qualifier is a non-issue. The correct question would be > "does anyone have a device which is not ATA-3 compliant and/or takes > some time to respond to a Software Reset command"? BTW, it's rather trivial to have a "probe me harder" option for doing a SCSI bus reset and long duration timeout probe, and export this to the user install level, if necessary. I think the IDE issue is a good point. People with IDE hardware in their machines should be punished by making them wait to boot... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message