From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 8:47:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C723A37BE7C for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 08:47:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e49GIh817411; Tue, 9 May 2000 09:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 09:18:43 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Bart Lateur Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: very LONG probing... Message-ID: <20000509091842.H4694@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39180A7D.CE133EC8@indosat.net.id> <391e0ddc.15609410@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <391e0ddc.15609410@relay.skynet.be>; from bart.lateur@skynet.be on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:10:04PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bart Lateur [000509 06:54] wrote: > On Tue, 09 May 2000 19:54:21 +0700, Trisnadi Sutrisno wrote: > > >I've installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my Dell system, it takes very LONG probing > >on startup. Is there any way to shorten that probing? > > You've unchecked most of the SCSI devices? These probes alone may, by > default, take close to an hour. An hour? More like 15-20 seconds for scsi and 15-30 seconds for the old IDE probes. Where exactly does it take an hour? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message