From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 30 09:17:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25807 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:17:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25800 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA01656; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:17:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:17:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Alfred Perlstein , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? Message-ID: <19980930111719.A28064@emsphone.com> References: <22709.907166227@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: ; from "Alfred Perlstein" on Wed Sep 30 12:08:20 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 30), Alfred Perlstein said: > why does it take a good 30sec at least to probe the IDE hardware? i > have ATAPI in the kernel, except for that, the boot squence would be > blazing fast. > > if i boot and someone walks past the computer i usually get asked: > "it locked up?" > > i don't see anything in LINT to shorten the time it takes to probe > the IDE devices, any suggestions? /sys/i386/isa/wd.c, around line 105. Change the TIMEOUT value from 10000 to the 3000-4000 range. That'll cut the max IDE probe time from 30 seconds down to like 10. -Dan Nelson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message