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Date:      Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:23:03 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        tundra@tundraware.com
Subject:   Re: Intel S3000AH stall on boot
Message-ID:  <200712041123.10824.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <4753738F.3010208@mawer.org>
References:  <200712021502.37344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <47536C03.50200@tundraware.com> <4753738F.3010208@mawer.org>

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Antony Mawer wrote:
> Another "me too". We saw this and wound up removing the floppy drive
> from the systems in order to avoid this lengthy delay on boot - we
> weren't using them anyway and it saved a whole $5 or so on the
> hardware costs... ;-)
>
> I seem to recall it was not purely a 6.x thing - as I'm sure that we
> have plenty of 6.x machines with FDDs that don't exhibit this hang -
> but it was only newer Intel motherboards (I think 9xx series onwards)
> that we were seeing the issue on...

I'll try disabling it in device.hints and see how it goes.

I don't really want to remove the FDD because it is needed in the event=20
we need to reinstall to load the aacu driver from Adaptec :-/

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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