From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 02:30:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D502C16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04EAA43FE0 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:30:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (37.80-203-228.nextgentel.com [80.203.228.37]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC26279162; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:30:53 +0200 (MEST) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 7B8F8994DA; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:30:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (dwp.des.no [10.0.0.4]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id B31099880B; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:30:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 8D69FB822; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:30:49 +0200 (CEST) To: Soren Schmidt References: <200309170626.h8H6QNrM008812@spider.deepcore.dk> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:30:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200309170626.h8H6QNrM008812@spider.deepcore.dk> (Soren Schmidt's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:26:23 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=8.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_GNUS_UA version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: Arjan van Leeuwen cc: Joachim =?iso-8859-1?q?Str=F6mbergson?= cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAng hangs with kernel from september 15 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:30:58 -0000 Soren Schmidt writes: > Well, the ATA driver has just grown more standard compliant :) > You *must* hang around for 31secs to wait for slow devices to come ready, > according to the ATA specs. Now I've gone to great length before to > get around this by using clever heuristics, and I'm getting there again, > but there are *so* many crappy devices out there that it takes time > to accomodate them all.=20 Is there any way you can postpone the device initialization so you can do them in paralell? Or make the length of the wait configurable, like SCSI_DELAY? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no