From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 7 19:12:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20955 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (firewall-user@fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20628 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id MAA22722; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:10:30 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma022709; Wed, 8 Apr 98 12:10:07 +1000 Received: from hydra.scitec.com.au (hydra.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.101]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA02404; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:09:58 +1000 Received: from scitec.com.au (saruman.scitec.com.au) by hydra.scitec.com.au with ESMTP (1.40.112.8/16.2) id AA160031397; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:09:57 +1000 Message-Id: <352ADC74.674C6B22@scitec.com.au> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 12:09:56 +1000 From: John Saunders Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: sfarrell+lists@farrell.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? References: <19305.891998449@time.cdrom.com> <877m512i5r.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk sfarrell+lists@farrell.org wrote: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > Hmmmm. This is very odd - I can't think of any reason why it would > > wait, nor does it wait anywhere near that long on my 2 IDE/1 SCSI > > drive spambox. > > > > Hmmmmm. *shug*? :-) > > Speaking of which... on mine it waits about 30-60 seconds probing the > ide CDROM... which i've ignored for ages (i.e., this is not new > behavior). Is there any way to speed this up? Yeah. I have 2 machines. One machine is configured as... IDE drive on primary as master IDE drive on secondary as master IDE CDROM on secondary as slave This machine flys through the IDE probing which is great. My other machine is configured as... IDE drive on primary as master IDE CDROM on secondary as master I used to wait about 60 seconds for the probing until I patched wd.c to reduce the timeouts. If I make the CDROM a slave it doesn't get detected either. Take a look at /sys/i386/isa/wd.c. Near the top there are 2 #defines for TIMEOUT and RETRIES. You can play with these a bit to make the probe not so painful. However don't cut them too short or it will stop detecting your drives altogether. Also keep a copying of the pre-patched kernel around just in case :) Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au (Work) | ,--_|\ | mailto:john@nlc.net.au (Home) | / Oz \ | http://www.nlc.net.au/~john/ | \_,--\_/ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61 2 9428 9563 Fax +61 2 9428 9933 | v | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message