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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:47:59 +1100
From:      Antony Mawer <fbsd-stable@mawer.org>
To:        Lukas Ertl <lukas.ertl@gmail.com>
Cc:        Jim Pingle <jim@hpcisp.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?
Message-ID:  <437FF1EF.5060100@mawer.org>
In-Reply-To: <4379f9100511191232n58462f56j5dc239f4afbfb41f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200511091508.jA9F8oIb014038@dis.cc.uit.no>	<4379f9100511190814u44c98f89w6bb314baf828fb8@mail.gmail.com>	<437F663A.2010601@hpcisp.com> <4379f9100511191232n58462f56j5dc239f4afbfb41f@mail.gmail.com>

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On 20/11/2005 7:32 AM, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> It has nothing to do with the SCSI controller, it's all about the
> floppy drive.  It seems like the fdc driver doesn't recognize that
> there's no disk in the drive and tries to access it on and on and on. 
> As I said, disable the floppy drive in the BIOS (or even put a floppy
> into the drive), then the boot process goes on as usual.

Indeed - I saw this just the other day on a purely Serial ATA/IDE 
system. Just after detecting the IDE disks, the system paused for about 
60 seconds, with the floppy drive light coming on. After ~60sec it then 
continued without a problem.

Slightly alarming, but apparently harmless...

-Antony




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