On 14 Feb 00, at 13:51, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Dan Langille wrote:
> > I have one box which is slow to boot under -current (mind you, I've never
> > run anything but -current on this box). In my previous message, there
> > were two excessively long pauses. One after ata0 appears and another
> > after ata-isa0 appears. I've been able to eliminate one of these pauses.
> > I removed this from my kernel:
> >
> > device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
> > All times are approximate (I had to count, no watches to hand).
> >
> > ATA and ATAPI devices
> > device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
> > #device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
> > device ata
> > device atadisk # ATA disk drives
> > #device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
> > #device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
> > #device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
> > options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
> > #options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA #Enable DMA on ATAPI
> > devices
> >
> > Did I miss anything else which might be useful?
>
> since this is a PCI system you should only have:
> device ata
> device atadisk # ATA disk drives
> options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
>
> BUT if the second channel is enabled in the BIOS and the hardware plays
> foul on probe, it will be probed for devices for the std timeout which is
> 31s pr device, give or take...
My thanks. I went from:
# ATA and ATAPI devices
device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
to what you suggested. i.e.:
> device ata
> device atadisk # ATA disk drives
> options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
That didn't fix the slow boot issue. So I disabled the "IDE Second
Channel Control" in the BIOS. This eliminated the lengthly delay.
Thanks. I didn't realised the bios settings would affect the boot in this
way. Cheers. Much appreciated.
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