On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:44:50PM -0400, Doug Troeger wrote:
> To respond to your questions --
> 
> (i) dmesg on this machine (Tecra 510 CDT) contains no occurrence of
> 'pciide' when using the generic kernel.
> 
> 
> (ii) the relevant dmesg lines for wdc1 would seem to be
> 
>   wdc1 at isa0 port 0x170-0x177 irq 15
>   atapibus0 at wdc1 channel 0
>   cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1202B, 1600832705, 1635>
>     type 5 cdrom 
>   removable
> 
> also using the generic kernel.  
> 
> The two delays -- mentioned in my previous mail -- are between 45 and 
> 50 seconds. 
> 
> I am certainly not a hardware expert - I know only that these delays did
> not stand out with 1.4.1 on this box.    
> 
> My real question:  should I be worried about this?

No, there's no reasons to worry about this. A few things changed in the probe
to accomodate other devices, and the effect seems to be that it now has
difficulties to detect nonexistent drives on your machine.
Such a long delay is annoying, though.

--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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