On Sep 10, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:00:08PM +0100, Paul Furness wrote:
Hmmm. It looks like it's taking its time detecting the SCSI devices.
All
Detection of SCSI devices can take a long time, a very long time.
I left the machine trying to boot over night. I really don't think it
should take 12+ hours.
Absent devices are discovered with a timeout that can be VERY long.
This may be one of the cases where you want to disable hardware
rediscovery in the normal boot sequence once a full discovery had
taken place.
How can I disable the hardware (re)discovery?
Bottom line is that devices that are healthy will be quick. It is the
empty holes that take time.
I have a SCSI RAID device with only 3/6 hard drive slots filled. I
don't think that should make it take a LONG time to boot.
Thanks,
Jeremy
