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Date:      Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:46:03 -0700 (MST)
From:      Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Abnormal long pause in boot
Message-ID:  <20040105124305.L22447@pooker.samsco.home>
In-Reply-To: <200401051931.i05JV47E012006@gw.catspoiler.org>
References:  <200401051931.i05JV47E012006@gw.catspoiler.org>

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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Don Lewis wrote:
> On  5 Jan, Doug White wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:
> >
> >> I rebuilt my CURRENT kernel last week and ever since then I was noticing
> >> a very long pause in the boot that wasn't in there before. Here is the
> >> dmesg chunk on a boot -v:
> >
> > Some ATA controllers need some extra handholding and can take a while to
> > probe.
> >
> > The stuff after the delay is firewire though, so it might be FW trying to
> > initialize the channel.
>
> My laptop has this problem.  The delay goes away if I remove firewire
> from the kernel.  I don't have anything to plug into the port anyway.

Maybe it is the SCSI subsystem waiting to probe for SCSI-over-Firewire
devices?  Do you have the sbp, scbus, etc, devices in your kernel?

Scott



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