Subject: Re: interleaved disk probing output
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/11/2003 13:26:33
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:30:39PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> > > There is *NO* reason to slow down system startup for pretty printing.
> >
> > I don't think the slow down would be noticable. At the time config_found
> > or config_attach is called, most of the work is already done.
>
> This is probably true for SCSI disks, but it is not true for ATA. My IBM
> laptop disks take ~5 seconds to respond to the first IDENTIFY command after a
> reset.
We don't have to wait for ordering before config_* is called.
At the time we call it, we already issued an IDENTIFY, so the commands
issued after that shouldn't take too long.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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