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Subject: Re: Long IDE probes?
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From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
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Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> writes:
> I have cut the SCSI timeout way down, and it massively shortens the boot
> time.  I'll have to do the same for the IDE stuff, since I *do* have an
> ATAPI CDROM (otherwise I'd just shut off the device completely).

I can testify that longish values of SCSI_DELAY are required for (at
least) certain SCSI streamers.

DES
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