Why use 60 sec on da0 during boot?

[Antony Mawer]

On 20/11/2005 7:32 AM, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> It has nothing to do with the SCSI controller, it's all about the
> floppy drive.  It seems like the fdc driver doesn't recognize that
> there's no disk in the drive and tries to access it on and on and on. 
> As I said, disable the floppy drive in the BIOS (or even put a floppy
> into the drive), then the boot process goes on as usual.

Indeed - I saw this just the other day on a purely Serial ATA/IDE 
system. Just after detecting the IDE disks, the system paused for about 
60 seconds, with the floppy drive light coming on. After ~60sec it then 
continued without a problem.

Slightly alarming, but apparently harmless...

-Antony