Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:46:45 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, <scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [PATCH] make SCSI_DELAY tunable Message-ID: <20020903203940.J6846-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20020902171959.A28616@web1.merit.edu>
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, William Bulley wrote: > Question: how does one eliminate the (even longer) delay when the > kernel probes the ATAPCI devices? I have timed it on my system at > about 30 seconds. I have only one device on my IDE chain (CDROM) > and it always takes FOREVER to decide it (the BIOS?) is happy. If > you think 15 seconds is bad for SCSI, this is worse, much worse. Jumpering the drive to be the master may work best. I recently needed to turn off completely unused ata devices in the BIOS to avoid this hang, but haven't had this problem lately with active ata devices. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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