Intel S3000AH stall on boot

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hi,

Antony Mawer wrote:
> On 3/12/2007 1:37 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> Jack Vogel wrote:
>>> On Dec 1, 2007 8:32 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am doing some work for a company that recently bought 2 systems 
>>>> based
>>>> on the above motherboard and mostly they work fine, however on boot
>>>> just before userland starts they stall for about a minute. (Just after
>>>> it starts the second CPU).
It's 2 minutes for me, but I see this on Dell's PE2850 (2 years old).
It seems that the problem starts after I installed a Dell's remote 
access controller card.
This card have support for virtual CD and virtual floppy, so I'll try to 
disable it from the card, as setting hint.fdc.0.disabled="1"
does not help at all.
I see this problem on FreeBSD 7 and 6.3-prerelease.

>>>
>>> Did you happen to check if during that time the floppy disk is being 
>>> accessed?
>>> If it is just reconfig the kernel with that device out and the hang
>>> won't happen.
>>>
>>> That is the only hang that I've seen that lasts that long.
>>>
>>> Jack
>>
>>
>> Or you can just turn it off in the BIOS to avoid having to fiddle 
>> with the
>> kernel.  *Why* this is happening is of more interest to me.  ISTM that
>> the kernel startup logic should be able to detect a floppy drive with no
>> disk in it and move on promptly.  I believe this because that is exactly
>> what 4.x did ... well, now that I think about it, I never tried 4.x on
>> the Intel MOBO that is causing this aggravation here....
>
> Another "me too". We saw this and wound up removing the floppy drive 
> from the systems in order to avoid this lengthy delay on boot - we 
> weren't using them anyway and it saved a whole $5 or so on the 
> hardware costs... ;-)
>
> I seem to recall it was not purely a 6.x thing - as I'm sure that we 
> have plenty of 6.x machines with FDDs that don't exhibit this hang - 
> but it was only newer Intel motherboards (I think 9xx series onwards) 
> that we were seeing the issue on...
>
> --Antony
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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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