Re: 9.1: boot-time delay? [WORKAROUND FOUND]

[Christoph Badura <bad%bsd.de@localhost>]

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:04:56PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > I suppose it's not possible to configure ahcisata in the BIOS on the
> > long-delay machines?
> 
> Thank you very much!  Yes.  That is possible - and it fixes the delay.
> I would not have thought to look for that; I would not have expected
> piixide and ahcisata to be similar enough that a BIOS setting could
> personality-swap between them.

IIRC, they are not really that similar.  But the dmesg excerpt you cited
had piixide at *Intel 6 Series Serial ATA Controller*.  So, clearly, the
device had to support ahci mode.  Well, "clearly" for those in the know.

--chris