Thus spake Enache Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > FreeBSD used to have an irritating boot delay in 4.4. It was gone in > ~4.6, never reappeared in -STABLE, but is there in -CURRENT. > (I've seen it also mentioned in some vmware documentation). > > Applying this patch fixes it: > > --- /arc/freebsd/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c Sun Jan 19 23:54:13 2003 > +++ sys/dev/ata/ata-all.c Mon Jan 27 21:02:34 2003 > @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ > > /* apparently some devices needs this repeated */ > do { > - if (ata_command(atadev, command, 0, 0, 0, ATA_WAIT_INTR)) { > + if (ata_command(atadev, command, 0, 0, 0, ATA_IMMEDIATE)) { > ata_prtdev(atadev, "%s identify failed\n", > command == ATA_C_ATAPI_IDENTIFY ? "ATAPI" : "ATA"); > free(ata_parm, M_ATA); > > I'm not familiar with the ata code, but I can't see from ata-all.c > which harm this could cause.
There is already at least one person for whom this code doesn't work, so this patch doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone needs to figure out exactly what delays are needed here to make everyone's hardware actually work. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message