Re: Slow Boot

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:09:05 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
> >
> > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
> > > > From: Bill Moran <wmoran_at_potentialtech.com>
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Nope. My system has disks on both ATA controllers with hard drives as
> > > the master for each channel. One channel also has the CD drive as
> > > the slave.
> >
> > Does the hard drive that's on it's own have a "Single" jumper
> > configuration option available?
>
> I'm not sure what a "Single" jumper is, but the drive is jumpered as
> "master". The only options are "master", "slave", and "Cable Select".

It's a jumper configuration that's commonly found on Western Digital IDE
drives. It might also be labelled "Master w/o slave".

Weirdness occurs (I've seen write errors and timeouts) when these drives
sit on an otherwise empty IDE channel while they are set as 'master'.

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