Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote:
> > If you're referring to the point at which RedHat detects your SCSI
> > adapter, then sits for a few seconds and re-detects your drives, you can
> > reconfigure the Linux kernel to have a shorter delay for this. You'll
> > have to build a custom kernel and make sure you have an up-to-date
> > kernel version. I believe the default used to be about 10 to 20 seconds
> > to be on the safe side, but you should be able to drop this to 5 seconds
> > with no problems.
>
> Yes that's what I mean. I compiled a new kernel....but I do not remember of
> being asked for this setting... Where would I change this delay? You have an
> idea...? Is it neccessary to be about 5 secs...? NT or Win9x seem to don't have
> a delay here...?
It's under 'SCSI low-level drivers', called 'Delay in seconds after the
SCSI bus reset'. It's right after where it asks if you want aic-7xxx
support. This may require you to set Prompt for developmental drivers or
get kernel 2.0.33, or maybe is only for the non-modular driver, but I
don't think so.
Also, make sure you don't have the driver compiled into the kernel
monolithically, and are still loading the driver module as well.
Otherwise it will initialize twice, but this normally hangs the machine.
What version of Adaptec BIOS do you have? If it's old, it may be taking
longer on reset than it needs to.
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