Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:47:43 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Lowell Gilbert'" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Boot timeout? Message-ID: <002701c37c8b$65425450$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <44y8wor1a2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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> > Now the system hangs for about 20 seconds at the BIOS drive=20 > detection, > > and at the FBSD atapi controller detection. >=20 > Are you using ATAPICAM? If so, it's probably the SCSI settling. > That's adjustable in the kernel configuration. The string 'atapicam' does not appear in my /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/CUSTOM customized kernel config file. Is that what you meant? I did find that string in LINT, but I'm not using it. I may have misled you in my post. What I should have said is, the system hangs for about 20 seconds at the BIOS drive detection, and then there is another 20 second delay when FBSD is detecting devices, *after* it displays the line about finding the atapi controller. It displays that line concerning the atapi controller, issues 2 cr/lf and pauses for that 20 seconds. It then continues to load without error, all devices are detected properly and I can read and write to them. I really think this delay may be more related to hardware than software. I just booted the system to an MS-DOS diskette, and the delay is still there. I have no special settings in BIOS. BTW: I've also posted this to alt.comp.hardware. No joy yet.
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