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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:18:25 +0200
From:      Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   boot delay when testing for ata devices
Message-ID:  <20030127221825.GA903@ratsnest.hole>

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FreeBSD used to have an irritating boot delay in 4.4. It was gone in
~4.6, never reappeared in -STABLE, but is there in -CURRENT.
(I've seen it also mentioned in some vmware documentation).

Applying this patch fixes it:

--- /arc/freebsd/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c	Sun Jan 19 23:54:13 2003
+++ sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c	Mon Jan 27 21:02:34 2003
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@
 
     /* apparently some devices needs this repeated */
     do {
-	if (ata_command(atadev, command, 0, 0, 0, ATA_WAIT_INTR)) {
+	if (ata_command(atadev, command, 0, 0, 0, ATA_IMMEDIATE)) {
 	    ata_prtdev(atadev, "%s identify failed\n",
 		       command == ATA_C_ATAPI_IDENTIFY ? "ATAPI" : "ATA");
 	    free(ata_parm, M_ATA);

I'm not familiar with the ata code, but I can't see from ata-all.c
which harm this could cause.

Regards
Adi

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