The following reply was made to PR kern/25659; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/25659: drive not recognized because of delays
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:47:21 +0200

 On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:09:01PM +0000, Brian Buhrow wrote:
 >  	In general, I think wdc.c is a bit too trigger happy, and given the
 >  increasing speeds of processors, slowing it down a bit will lead to fewer
 >  failures to recognize attached drives.
 
 Uhm, none of the changes you proposed would change any processor speed
 dependend things.
 
 I think the timeout values come from the ATA standard, and I wouldn't mind to
 change the outer loop controlls to i.e. give bogus drives twice the time as
 the standard permits (while not affecting good drives) - but you are touching
 a lot of the inner small delays, is that realy needed?
 
 Martin