From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 1 14:51:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11682 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:51:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hi.pu.ru (xi.pu.ru [193.124.85.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11641 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:51:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from igor@hi.pu.ru) Received: (from igor@localhost) by hi.pu.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA18489; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 01:50:49 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor) Message-ID: <19981002015048.59321@pu.ru> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 01:50:48 +0400 From: Igor Nikolaev To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? References: <22709.907166227@time.cdrom.com> <19980930111719.A28064@emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19980930111719.A28064@emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:17:19AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:17:19AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 30), Alfred Perlstein said: > > why does it take a good 30sec at least to probe the IDE hardware? i > > have ATAPI in the kernel, except for that, the boot squence would be > > blazing fast. > > /sys/i386/isa/wd.c, around line 105. Change the TIMEOUT value from > 10000 to the 3000-4000 range. That'll cut the max IDE probe time from > 30 seconds down to like 10. 1. May be this parameter must be kernel option? 2. What about simple `ide` program (man 8 scsi analogous) for (test geometry, reprobe, initialize, wdcommand) and other test purposes? I use ide hot swap changer as fast backup device and similar program can very facilitate my life. Thanks, Igor Nikolaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message