On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:34:26PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Can't we just reduce the annoying: > > Waiting 15 second for SCSI devices to settle > > to something shorter like 5 seconds in GENERIC? I know perfectly well > where it came from but these days not many of those slow disks are > still around. > > It really annoys the hell out of me waiting the 15 seconds for nothing > each time I boot the GENERIC kernel for testing. Sure I can change > that in the kernel config but then it's modified. Any why take 15 > seconds of everyone if only a very few actually need it (those with > stone-age disk drives)? Since I added tunables a while back, it should be safe to remove the setting from GENERIC entierly, at least in CURRENT. The default is 2 seconds and works fine for most applications. You can always set kern.cam.scsi_delay to a different value in the loader if you have devices that need more time. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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