Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?

[Lukas Ertl]

On 11/9/05, Ingeborg Hellemo <Ingeborg.Hellemo at cc.uit.no> wrote:
> Fresh new ProLiant dl380 2 CPU/dual core
> Fresh new FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
>
>
> During boot I arrive at
>
> da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <COMPAQ RAID 1  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> da0: 34727MB (71122560 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 8716C)
>
> then nothing happens for about 60 seconds and then everything proceedes as
> usual (starting daemons, mounting NFS-disks etc.)

I see this behaviour on my DL380s, too.  I don't have a fix, but a
workaround: disable the floppy drive in the BIOS.

cheers,
le