scsi-cd + GEOM

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Oct 2 01:11:39 PDT 2003


In message <1065074150.3919.12.camel at dreamland.chief.home>, Sascha Holzleiter w
rites:
>Hi,
>
>with a -CURRENT from today the scsi cd driver seems to have moved under
>GEOM. Actually a good move this gives me a problem:
>
>I have a Plextor PX-40 cd-rom which seems to report it's status a little
>slow when being reinitialized this means I have to wait about 60-90
>seconds during boot time before the boot process continues:

Does the length of the delay depend on the precense of a CD in the
drive ?

I can see various hacks we could do to circumvent this delay, but
none of them are particularly attractive to me.


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