From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 23:51:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F7637BC96 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 23:51:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.198.134] (helo=parish.my.domain) by carbon with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12sAVd-0006m4-00; Wed, 17 May 2000 21:33:37 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02475; Wed, 17 May 2000 21:33:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:33:34 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Michel Talon Cc: stable , khera@kciLink.com Subject: Re: shorter boot time? Message-ID: <20000517213334.J232@parish> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000517173946.A1117@lpthe.jussieu.fr>; from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:39:47PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message