long pause in startup

[Charles Sprickman]

Hi all,

Any ideas on this one?  This machine (one of those ancient VALinux 2U 
boxes, Intel L440GX+ board, dual PIII) hangs for a very long time between 
the second processor launching and geom_mirror kicking in.  It does always 
boot, but the hang is more than a minute - just enough to make one 
nervous when rebooting remotely...

Is this just the mirror taking a really long time to initialize, or 
something more sinister?

Here's part of the dmesg with an indication of where it hangs:

Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SEAGATE ST173404LWV 4301> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
Enabled
da0: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <SEAGATE ST173404LWV 4301> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da1: 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
Enabled
da1: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!

-->> 1 minute+ <<--

GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=3517779574).
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da0 detected.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 detected.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da1 activated.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider da0 activated.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 launched.
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a

Any info is appreciated, this is just something I wanted to check out 
before bringing this into production (secondary ns, mx w/pfspamd).

Thanks!

Charles