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From: Terry Lee <terryl@iago.ienet.com>
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To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: wd probe take unusually long (45s ea) on ASUS Triton II
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>Number:         1260
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       wd probe take unusually long (45s ea) on ASUS Triton II
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 27 10:40:02 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Jun 22 16:21:13 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sat Jun 22 16:22:14 PDT 1996
>Originator:     Terry Lee
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-960323-SNAP i386
>Organization:
Internet Design Group
>Environment:

	ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 Triton II motherboard with AHA-2940 and no IDE devices

>Description:

	wd0 probe takes 45 seconds and wd1 takes 40 seconds to report not
	found.  I have nothing on these IDE controllers.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Boot the system

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To: terryl@iago.ienet.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/1260: wd probe take unusually long (45s ea) on ASUS Triton II 
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:05:30 +0000

 > >Synopsis:       wd probe take unusually long (45s ea) on ASUS Triton II
 > 
 > 	ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 Triton II motherboard with AHA-2940 and no IDE devices
 > 
 > >Description:
 > 
 > 	wd0 probe takes 45 seconds and wd1 takes 40 seconds to report not
 > 	found.  I have nothing on these IDE controllers.
 
 This is more or less the way IDE works, sorry.  If you want to find out
 why, I suggest you check out the ATA archives at ftp://fission.wdc.com.
 
 --
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 Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, terryl@iago.ienet.com
Cc:  Subject: Re: i386/1260: wd probe take unusually long (45s ea) on ASUS Triton II
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 06:20:21 +1000

 >>Description:
 
 >	wd0 probe takes 45 seconds and wd1 takes 40 seconds to report not
 >	found.  I have nothing on these IDE controllers.
 
 This is more or less required.  Probing in parallel isn't possible with
 current probe technology, and the ATA spec says that a wait of 31 seconds
 is required after reset.  The driver is buggy and only waits 10 seconds
 after reset, but it also waits 10 seconds before reset and retries the
 reset, giving a total wait of 40 seconds per controller.
 
 >>Fix:
 
 Disable the unused controllers in the BIOS, or disable the unused drivers
 in the kernel config.
 
 Bruce
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: gpalmer 
State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 22 16:21:13 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
The long probe timeout is required by IDE/ATAPI specs 
>Unformatted:
