scsi-cd + GEOM

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1065102164.746.2.camel at dreamland.chief.home>, Sascha Holzleiter wri
tes:
>On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:55, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> Does the length of the delay depend on the precense of a CD in the
>> drive ?
>> 
>
>Yes. If I have a cd in the drive while booting there is no delay.
>The cd is read and status instantly reported so the boot process isn't
>delayed only when there is no disc present.
>
>I also did a verbose boot and recognized about 100 times of these when
>there was no disc present:
>
>(ahc0:A:3:0): Sending SDTR period c, offset f
>(ahc0:A:3:0): Received SDTR period c, offset f
>        Filtered to period c, offset f

I wouldn't think the drive take 60-90 seconds to figure out there is
no disk, but I'm not a scsi-specialist...

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