Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0400 I heard the voice of
Bill Moran, and lo! it spake thus:
My best guess is that the chipset responds slowly to probes, thus it
takes a while to get the list of devices from it. However, I've never
looked into it any more than that.
I've always presumed it to be a question of timing out probes to the
drives; it only ever happens on IDE controllers with no devices attached
to 'em. I habitually just disable the controller channels that are empty
(or, in the case of my SCSI systems, just yank ATA support altogether).
Could be. This machine is pretty bare-bones. Single ATA HDD and nothing
on the secondary controller. I never really considered that, but it makes
sense that probes on the secondary controller would take the full timeout
value if there was nothing to respond.
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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