Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:55:31 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long IDE probes? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301554280.309-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809301055290.7309-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> > > > IDE by definition is probed by the BIOS before boot. Either the disk is > > > > there or it is not, and you don't get out of POST and to Boot until that's > > > > determined. Therefore, a long wait there is COMPLETELY pointless. > > > > > > Huh? First of all, more than disks can be put on IDE, and the BIOS > > > doesn't know anything about that. Most BIOSes don't probe IDE at all, but > > > newer ones do it to avoid static settings in the CMOS. > > > > The hell it doesn't. > > > > I've got several machines with IDE hardware in them. All of them find > > things like CDROMs during the boot sequence (before loading an OS). > > Yes, newer machines. The BIOS doesn't need to do that. I have a CDROM > in an older machine here, and the BIOS doesn't grok it at all. Basically, > the BIOS display is informational only (except for the boot disk). urm, (sounding like a broken record again) how about a defualt option in GENERIC for the long delay that people can tweak if they so desire? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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