RE: Boot timeout?

From: Charles Howse (chowse_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/17/03

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:21:55 -0500

    > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 05:47, Charles Howse wrote:
    > > > > Now the system hangs for about 20 seconds at the BIOS drive
    > > > detection,
    > > > > and at the FBSD atapi controller detection.
    > > >
    > > > Are you using ATAPICAM? If so, it's probably the SCSI settling.
    > > > That's adjustable in the kernel configuration.
    > >
    > > The string 'atapicam' does not appear in my
    > > /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/CUSTOM customized kernel config
    > file. Is that
    > > what you meant? I did find that string in LINT, but I'm
    > not using it.
    > >
    > > I may have misled you in my post. What I should have said is, the
    > > system hangs for about 20 seconds at the BIOS drive
    > detection, and then
    > > there is another 20 second delay when FBSD is detecting
    > devices, *after*
    > > it displays the line about finding the atapi controller.
    > It displays
    > > that line concerning the atapi controller, issues 2 cr/lf
    > and pauses for
    > > that 20 seconds. It then continues to load without error,
    > all devices
    > > are detected properly and I can read and write to them.
    > >
    > > I really think this delay may be more related to hardware
    > than software.
    > > I just booted the system to an MS-DOS diskette, and the
    > delay is still
    > > there. I have no special settings in BIOS.
    > >
    > > BTW: I've also posted this to alt.comp.hardware. No joy yet.
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I also think the delay is hardware related. The most common
    > reason would
    > be if a drive was jumpered incorrectly, eg. if the drive is
    > set as slave
    > but there is no master drive, or the master drive is set with slave
    > drive present when there is no slave drive.
    >
    > So the BIOS waits for a response from an unavailable drive or
    > until the
    > time-out period is reached.
    >
    > In your original post you mentioned the 2Gb was set as
    > master, then you
    > connected it as secondary-slave. You would need to change jumper
    > settings to reflect this.

    Yes, I changed the jumper.
    I will check the Western Digital (I HATE them) web site for up-to-date
    info on jumper settings for that drive, and try different settings
    myself, but I think I have it correct to begin with.

    The key on the drive itself says to set it this way for master:
    ::::.
       ^
    Where . Is the key pin, so you don't get it upside down.

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