From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 3 20:06:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22144 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:06:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22127 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25993; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:06:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd025947; Sat Oct 3 20:06:03 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA21544; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:05:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810040305.UAA21544@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? To: ken@plutotech.com (Kenneth D. Merry) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 03:05:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: karl@denninger.net, tom@uniserve.com, dnelson@emsphone.com, bright@hotjobs.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809302005.OAA01044@panzer.plutotech.com> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at Sep 30, 98 02:05:57 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 > That's not really the point of the delay. The point of the "bus settle" > delay is to allow devices to recover from the bus reset that we send at > boot. As Justin pointed out, modern devices take a relatively short period > of time to do this (100ms or so), but older devices may take longer. Uh, so why are we sending a reset? Is it merely to allow us to wait? 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