Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 12:01:53 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a" Message-ID: <199905221811.MAA09033@pluto.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 May 1999 19:48:37 %2B0200." <5827.927395317@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>>CAM has finished probing at this point, but it holds off on announcing >>devices until it has all necessary info. The drives may need to >>be spun up, etc. I believe the printf happens before the device has >>been opened and CAM blocks in the open until the device is really >>ready for service. > >I think we should hold off the rootdev determination until after the >printfs, unless you tell me that this will delay the boot by many >seconds in too many cases. It will probably add 5->15 seconds for anyone with a cdrom drive with even greater delays for people with more than 2 or 3 devices. There are also devices like scanners and older WORM devices that can take up to a minute to become ready. It seems quite silly to me to hold up booting for devices that are not even referenced during boot. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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