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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:30:49 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATAng hangs with kernel from september 15
Message-ID:  <xzpr82fg3sm.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200309170626.h8H6QNrM008812@spider.deepcore.dk> (Soren Schmidt's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:26:23 %2B0200 (CEST)")
References:  <200309170626.h8H6QNrM008812@spider.deepcore.dk>

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Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> writes:
> Well, the ATA driver has just grown more standard compliant :)
> You *must* hang around for 31secs to wait for slow devices to come ready,
> according to the ATA specs. Now I've gone to great length before to
> get around this by using clever heuristics, and I'm getting there again,
> but there are *so* many crappy devices out there that it takes time
> to accomodate them all.=20

Is there any way you can postpone the device initialization so you can
do them in paralell?  Or make the length of the wait configurable,
like SCSI_DELAY?

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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