From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 16 2:37:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1CD37B699 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:37:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795A86E2AEF for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:36:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14ITJD-0000eM-00; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:25:50 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14IDz4-0000HZ-00; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:03:58 +0300 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:03:58 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: David Wagner Cc: FBSD-STABLE Subject: Re: Strange device probe behavior Message-ID: <20010115210358.A693@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , David Wagner , FBSD-STABLE References: <20010114122845.A400@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "David Wagner" on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:08:04AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Wagner [20010114 19:35]: writing on the subject 'Re: Strange device probe behavior' David> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: David> David> > atapci0: port 0x1860-0x186f at device David> > 4.1 on pci0 David> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ David> > This is where 15 or so seconds lapse before the probe continues!! David> David> Well, if it makes you feel any better, my system does this too. It has: David> David> atapci0: port 0x18a0-0x18af at device 7.1 David> on pci0 David> David> Mine's a Gateway system I bought a couple years ago and recently turned David> into a FreeBSD box. I've never noticed any problems with it -- once the David> probe continues everything seems to be fine. I certainly have no idea David> _why_ it does it, but at least it doesn't seem to be cause for panic. :) Well, and does your system end up detecting ata1 (or it doesn't exist in yours, maybe) ? Someone suspects that the 'momentary stall' at that stage could be s'thing to do with probe for ata1 (a couple others have it - I have it too on a clone that I run and no stall) but even a kernel compile without ata1 still yields no difference. TIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. -Margaret Mead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message