Hi Alex, I will double-check my BIOS, I thought I had unused ports disabled, but I might have missed some (it's a complex motherboard!). I probably wont recompile my kernel, because I think that would prohibit me from using the freebsd-update program. I can always just wait, it was a bigger problem when I had 6 drives in it. It almost seems to be pausing when it finds a drive, I have a CDROM and one HD in it now.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon Feb 14 11, Xn Nooby wrote: >> I get about a 30 second delay during boot for each hard-drive >> connected to my PC. I'm running FreeBSD 8.1 AMD64 on an ASUS >> Sabertooth X58 motherboard. >> >> atapci0: [ITHREAD] >> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 >> ata2: [ITHREAD] >> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 >> >> Is there something I can define or disable to make these timeouts go faster? >> >> These lines get the delay: >> >> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 >> ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 > > A) > you can rebuild your kernel with > > options ATA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT=3 > > to reduce the timeout to 3 seconds. that should be enough for new > hdds/controllers. > > > B) > or you could try switching from ATA(4) to CAM(4) via the ATA_CAM kernel option > (see ATA(4) for an explanation). since you're running pretty new hardware and > a recent fbsd version you would defenately benefit from switching to CAM(4). > it > has much better ahci support e.g. > > simply add > > options ATA_CAM > > to your kernel conf and your good to go after building installing the new > kernel. > > also the probelm might be in your BIOS. be sure to deactivate all ATA channels > which don't have a device connected to them. otherwise fbsd will look for one > until the timeout gets hit (both in ATA(4) and CAM(4)). in fact you might want > to check the bios before trying any of the steps A) or B), because this very > likely seems to be the problem in your case. > > cheers. > alex > > -- > a13x > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
