Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:17:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? Message-ID: <19980930111719.A28064@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301205580.309-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>; from "Alfred Perlstein" on Wed Sep 30 12:08:20 GMT 1998 References: <22709.907166227@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301205580.309-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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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
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