Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:42:00 +0200 From: Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-stable@mawer.org> Cc: tundra@tundraware.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel S3000AH stall on boot Message-ID: <4753DD78.1080209@moneybookers.com> In-Reply-To: <4753738F.3010208@mawer.org> References: <200712021502.37344.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <2a41acea0712021734l32e73d64jd34272a23e487c8@mail.gmail.com> <47536C03.50200@tundraware.com> <4753738F.3010208@mawer.org>
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Hi, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 3/12/2007 1:37 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> Jack Vogel wrote: >>> On Dec 1, 2007 8:32 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I am doing some work for a company that recently bought 2 systems >>>> based >>>> on the above motherboard and mostly they work fine, however on boot >>>> just before userland starts they stall for about a minute. (Just after >>>> it starts the second CPU). It's 2 minutes for me, but I see this on Dell's PE2850 (2 years old). It seems that the problem starts after I installed a Dell's remote access controller card. This card have support for virtual CD and virtual floppy, so I'll try to disable it from the card, as setting hint.fdc.0.disabled="1" does not help at all. I see this problem on FreeBSD 7 and 6.3-prerelease. >>> >>> Did you happen to check if during that time the floppy disk is being >>> accessed? >>> If it is just reconfig the kernel with that device out and the hang >>> won't happen. >>> >>> That is the only hang that I've seen that lasts that long. >>> >>> Jack >> >> >> Or you can just turn it off in the BIOS to avoid having to fiddle >> with the >> kernel. *Why* this is happening is of more interest to me. ISTM that >> the kernel startup logic should be able to detect a floppy drive with no >> disk in it and move on promptly. I believe this because that is exactly >> what 4.x did ... well, now that I think about it, I never tried 4.x on >> the Intel MOBO that is causing this aggravation here.... > > Another "me too". We saw this and wound up removing the floppy drive > from the systems in order to avoid this lengthy delay on boot - we > weren't using them anyway and it saved a whole $5 or so on the > hardware costs... ;-) > > I seem to recall it was not purely a 6.x thing - as I'm sure that we > have plenty of 6.x machines with FDDs that don't exhibit this hang - > but it was only newer Intel motherboards (I think 9xx series onwards) > that we were seeing the issue on... > > --Antony > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177
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