Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:33:34 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: stable <stable@freebsd.org>, khera@kciLink.com Subject: Re: shorter boot time? Message-ID: <20000517213334.J232@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000517173946.A1117@lpthe.jussieu.fr>; from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:39:47PM %2B0200 References: <20000516173854.A9898@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <007301bfbf74$53bd9c30$411415d1@haus> <14625.44940.974136.577012@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000517095751.A453@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <14626.45916.600074.906028@onceler.kcilink.com> <20000517173946.A1117@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:39:47PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:57:32AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > >>>>> "MT" == Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr> writes:
> >
> > MT> I have a machine with SCSI disk, but IDE Cdrom, so i cannot remove
> > MT> the ata driver. Well, it pauses for a very long time probing IDE disks.
> > MT> I have not found any way to reduce this delay. Under 3.4, there was no such
> > MT> problem.
> >
> > Just remove the devices that don't exist. That is, if your CDRom is
> > disk0 on second controller, remove first controller and the disk1
> > device on the second controller. Then it only looks for the one disk
> > on the one controller.
> >
>
> Of course i have done that, to absolutely no avail. This was the
> trick i used with the wcd driver in FreeBSD 3.3 and which worked
> then.
Can't you just comment out the line
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
and leave the
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
line together with either ata0 or ata1?
> There was also an ide_delay option or a think like that, but
> it seems there is no more any way to reduce the probe time. On my
> laptop which has an ide disk, the probe with ata is immediate and
> the boot very fast.
>
>
> --
> Michel Talon
>
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