Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:36:58 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: i386/1260: wd probe take unusually long (45s ea) on ASUS Triton II Message-ID: <199605272036.GAA17004@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> > wd0 probe takes 45 seconds and wd1 takes 40 seconds to report not > > found. I have nothing on these IDE controllers. > > This is more or less the way IDE works, sorry. If you want to find out > why, I suggest you check out the ATA archives at ftp://fission.wdc.com. Yes, it's a fine standard :-). It specifies the necessary wait as 31 seconds (max), while for SCSI we can only guess that 15 seconds is enough for Joe SCSI device (see the GENERIC config). Brucehome | help
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