Re: slow to boot

2000-02-15 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Soren Schmidt writes: ata1: mask=03 status0=a5 status1=a5 ..30+ seconds ata1: mask=00 status0=ffa5 status1=ffa5 Hmm, you could try to change the probe to something like: ... status1 = inb(scp-ioaddr + ATA_STATUS); if ((status0 0xf8) != 0xf8 status0 != 0xa5)

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: It seems that the 0xa5 value means "no device" too, on lots of controllers, and its not valid anyways, so it wouldn't hurt..." That works! The pause is gone and the reboot time is more than cut in half. I urge you to commit this ;-) I will, its in

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-15 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Soren Schmidt [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: It seems Dan Langille wrote: I have one box which is slow to boot under -current (mind you, I've never ... 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

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Andrew Gallatin wrote: Is there any way to tell the driver not to reduce the timeout to something less than 31s? Or would it be easier for me to just #if 0 the lun1 (iobase_2..) code in ata_pciattach()? I'm asking because we have about 20 boxes like this. All of which are "rack"

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dan Langille wrote: On 14 Feb 00, at 22:02, Dan Langille wrote: On 7 Feb 00, at 18:12, 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). There are two pauses. One after ata0 appears

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Feb 00, at 18:12, 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). There are two pauses. One after ata0 appears and another after ata-isa0 appears. I'm reposting this as there has been no response

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 14 Feb 00, at 11:15, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Dan Langille wrote: On 14 Feb 00, at 22:02, Dan Langille wrote: On 7 Feb 00, at 18:12, 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

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 14 Feb 00, at 22:02, Dan Langille wrote: On 7 Feb 00, at 18:12, 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). There are two pauses. One after ata0 appears and another after ata-isa0 appears

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-14 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Feb 00, at 18:12, 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). There are two pauses. One after ata0 appears and another after ata-isa0 appears. I'm reposting this as there has been no response

Re: slow to boot

2000-02-14 Thread Soren Schmidt
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

slow to boot

2000-02-07 Thread Dan Langille
I have one box which is slow to boot under -current (mind you, I've never run anything but -current on this box). There are two pauses. One after ata0 appears and another after ata-isa0 appears. All times are approximate (I had to count, no watches to hand). This is written