I wonder if you could disable the un-used controllers in the BIOS for the motherboard or the card? Or possibly with jumpers if it's a card. Not sure if that would work or not.
Andrew "frugal" Dacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tildefrugal.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gentoo-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting search for hard drives > Humm...I still get a long delay as the boot comes back saying: > > hde: ST380023AS, ATA DISK drive > blk: queue c0385a68, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > > A long delay of about 30-45 seconds here, then: > > hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) > > and then it goes on to boot. > > I tried it both on the line with the kernel command, and on the next > line by itself. No difference. > > hde (and hdf, g & h if they existed) is on a Silicon Image SATA > controller. > > This is not a big deal. Just trying to make this machine boot very > cleanly and quickly. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
