Re: dfly hangs about a minute on the boot up when it's trying to search after SATA disks.

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:18:36AM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
>
> > Problem exists on any OS that does its own scanning.
> > And there is nothing we can do to change that, save
> > skipping the device in ACPI if it is not intended
> > for our use.
>
>
> I disagree. Compare boot time of a pure ATA machine with and
> without ATAPICAM, the default scan timeout of CAM is long enough
> to trigger this.
>
> Joerg

Sorry for the delay -  been checking controllers and such ....
not a lot of good news w/r the cheap seats controllers.....

More when I have something less subjective...

I did say "cheap"?  One of two Sil 3114 controllers had a burr
on the cardedge that had to be cleaned up with needle files.  :-(

There will be more like that, so we need *someplace* else
to keep the discussion of such junk out of coder's faces.

Bill