In article <01020523352300.27220@pinky.paradox.demon.co.uk> you write:
>On Monday 05 February 2001 10:01 pm, Chris Cowdery wrote:
>Remove the wdc entry (and it's children) if you're not using it.  What you're 
>getting is something like:
>30 sec time out on wdc
>30 sec timeout on atapibus

FWIW, I got this on my D.T. Software IDE card (before I discovered it never
generated IRQs).  It turns out that the MI wdc driver has a trick for
spotting missing IDE drives quickly, but this depends on the bus's having
pull-up resistors.  Often they don't, so the driver has to go through the
full (long) detection routine.

The code is in sys/dev/ic/wdc.c, around lines 188--209.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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