Subject: Re: pciide slow boot
To: Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>
From: None <netbsd@ns.purk.ee>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/07/2003 21:33:53
pciide1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0: Triones/Highpoint HPT374 IDE Controller
pciide1: bus-master DMA support present
pciide1: primary channel wired to native-PCI mode
pciide1: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt
-------------------------------------------------------> Here 10-15/sec
pciide1: secondary channel wired to native-PCI mode
pciide2 at pci0 dev 19 function 1: Triones/Highpoint HPT374 IDE Controller
pciide2: bus-master DMA support present
pciide2: primary channel wired to native-PCI mode
pciide2: using irq 11 for native-PCI interrupt
-------------------------------------------------------> Here 10-15/sec

David..i run couple of boxen with x86/Solaris and i don't have any delays but
Solaris is *DEAD* slow in x/86 ;-)



Tsiteerimine Gary Thorpe <gathorpe79@yahoo.com>:

> I tried a 1.6 install CD in the machine with the hard disk, cdrom, and
> cdrw drives: the only pause is just after the message "pciide channel 0
> wired to interrupt 15" or similar and it lasted less than 5 seconds.
> The primary channel does not in fact have any atapi devices on it: only
> the hard disk is on the channel and it is set as the master. The
> secondary channel is properly configured with master/slave settings
> also and experiences no pauses in the probe.
> 
> If atapi mandates a 30 second wait for the probe it apparently is not
> being applied in this case. Sounds like a bug, not a feature: either
> its not being applied when it should or there shouldn't be a pause at all.
> 
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