Slow Boot

[Bill Moran]

Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> 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).

Could be.  This machine is pretty bare-bones.  Single ATA HDD and nothing
on the secondary controller.  I never really considered that, but it makes
sense that probes on the secondary controller would take the full timeout
value if there was nothing to respond.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com