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.cSun 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.
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