Re: Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle *groan*

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Emiel Kollof wrote:
> :> That and 15 seconds seems a bit too long. Know of any hardware that actually 
> :> needs that long to settle in? (and don't you guys go dig up the most 
> :> antiquated SCSI peripherals that actually do need 15 seconds ;) ) If yes, 
> :> I'll just shut up about this.
> :
> :my cd writer does.  but i have the delay set to 3 secs, and it just 
> :reports in later, no big deal.  so i'm basically for reducing this timeout.
> :
> :cheers
> :   simon
>
>     Its fine.  Go ahead and reduce it to 5 seconds.   I expect that 99.9%
>     of boxes will work just fine at 5 seconds and it makes more sense to
>     burden the remaining 0.1% of people then to burden 99.9% of the people.
>
> 						-Matt

What we really need is a loader option that would control the SCSI probe
delay.  If I recall correctly it is still a compile time option.  Another
thing that we can offer is a boot menu option that would cut shortcuts
exactly like these across various subsystems where applicable for people
who do not have "delicate" hardware.

Regards,

--
Hiten Pandya
hmp at dragonflybsd.org