Slow Boot

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it
> takes a while to get the list of devices from it.  However, I've never
> looked into it any more than that.

I've always presumed it to be a question of timing out probes to the
drives; it only ever happens on IDE controllers with no devices attached
to 'em.  I habitually just disable the controller channels that are empty
(or, in the case of my SCSI systems, just yank ATA support altogether).


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
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"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"