device atapicam - causes huge slowdown

[Fabian Keil]

Adam Retter <adam at adamretter.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> FreeBSD funkalicious.home.dom 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #8:
> Thu Feb 23 23:24:57 GMT 2006
> root at funkalicious.home.dom:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/funkalicious  i386
> 
> I have a fairly straight-forward kernel config (see below) I think, yet
> if I enable "device atapicam", and buildkernel and installkernel and
> reboot, the system starts up fine until it get's to finding disks and
> then it goes incredibly slowly, takes about 5 minutes to get to
> "harvesting interupts" and so on and so on, I think it will eventually
> get to the login prompt, but I havent been tolerant to wait that long
> >15 minutes.

> If I dont use "device atapicam" the system is perfect, but I could
> really do with enabling it, for CD/DVD writting purposes...

If you don't use "device atapicam" you can kldload atapicam.ko later.
You could try it to see if it makes a difference.

Fabian
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