It seems Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Soren Schmidt <sos_at_spider.deepcore.dk> writes: > > Well, the ATA driver has just grown more standard compliant :) > > You *must* hang around for 31secs to wait for slow devices to come ready, > > according to the ATA specs. Now I've gone to great length before to > > get around this by using clever heuristics, and I'm getting there again, > > but there are *so* many crappy devices out there that it takes time > > to accomodate them all. > > Is there any way you can postpone the device initialization so you can > do them in paralell? That wont help anything here, this is pre device init stuff.. > Or make the length of the wait configurable, like SCSI_DELAY? That would be a gross hack, the spec says to wait 31 secs and thats it, if you want to wait shorter go ahead and change your local sources, but we need to find a real solution (and I will get there, I just need enough datapoints to find the right solution)... -SørenReceived on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 00:38:51 UTC
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