From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 00:53:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA8816A421 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:53:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACC713C447 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:53:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB40rFr4022359 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:23:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 11:23:03 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200712021502.37344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <47536C03.50200@tundraware.com> <4753738F.3010208@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <4753738F.3010208@mawer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1203134.UpYZQuP9nt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200712041123.10824.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: tundra@tundraware.com Subject: Re: Intel S3000AH stall on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:53:23 -0000 --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--