Slow Boot
Matthew D. Fuller
fullermd at over-yonder.net
Sun Aug 17 20:19:50 PDT 2003
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it
> takes a while to get the list of devices from it. However, I've never
> looked into it any more than that.
I've always presumed it to be a question of timing out probes to the
drives; it only ever happens on IDE controllers with no devices attached
to 'em. I habitually just disable the controller channels that are empty
(or, in the case of my SCSI systems, just yank ATA support altogether).
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd at over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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