From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 02:49:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04F237B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 02:49:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A547643FB1 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 02:49:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h34AnNJP010480; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:49:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E8D5A02.4010601@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 05:10:10 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Lahaye References: <3E8CE918.2050409@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <3E8CE918.2050409@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long wait for harddisk detection during kernel boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 10:49:26 -0000 Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm using 4.7 Release. > > When the kernel boots, I get a relatively long wait (a minute or more) > at the harddisk detection. The HD is a IBM-DTLA/30.7Gb; CPU is Intel > 1.7 GHz. I don't know the answer to your question ... but I can say a few things about the issue: 1) I have it happening on a few older machines 2) These machines are rock-stable in every other regard Hope this is useful. > For the whole 'dmesg' output, see below in the PS; the place where the > wait occurs is here: > > [...] > atapci0: port 0xb800-0xb80f at device > 31.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > [ HERE is the long wait! ] > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > uhci0: port > 0xb400-0xb41f irq 11 at device 31.2 on pci0 > [...] > > Any ideas why the kernel boot is not going smooth at that point? > > Thanks! > > Rob. > > > PS: the complete boot log is: > > avail memory = 518733824 (506576K bytes) > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc03f1000. > Preloaded mfs_root "/mfsroot" at 0xc03f1084. > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled > md0: Preloaded image 4096 bytes at 0xc03ee354 > md1: Malloc disk > Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00f1600 > npx0: on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > pcib0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 > pci1: on pcib1 > pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 > pci2: on pcib2 > pci2: at 10.0 irq 12 > rl0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem > 0xef800000-0xef8000ff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci2 > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:b0:0e:3a:95 > miibus0: on rl0 > rlphy0: on miibus0 > rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > atapci0: port 0xb800-0xb80f at device > 31.1 on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > uhci0: port > 0xb400-0xb41f irq 11 at device 31.2 on pci0 > usb0: on uhci0 > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > uhci1: port > 0xb000-0xb01f irq 5 at device 31.4 on pci0 > usb1: on uhci1 > usb1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > orm0: