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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--nextPart1203134.UpYZQuP9nt Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1203134.UpYZQuP9nt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHVKT25ZPcIHs/zowRAtsUAKCOdS5sT/ZJSDRG0Z4zIstU5yax4gCgn4Nc pTjNZkCszvOG90iFAMF3hp4= =8E5m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1203134.UpYZQuP9nt--
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