On 7 Apr 1998, Sean Doran wrote:

> > In addition to the preceding error message, I noticed that there is now
> > a 10 second or so delay just after the following sequence of messages 
> > come out:
> > 
> >   wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
> >   wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <WDC AC33100H>
> >   wd0: 3020MB, 6136 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
> >   wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
> >   wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: <ST32140A>
> >   wd1: 2015MB, 4095 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec
> >   wd1: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
> > 
> > This delay never happened with the revision A05 BIOS. Could someone
> > familar with this part of the boot sequence explain to me what NetBSD
> > is trying to do at this point?
> 
> It is probing for further drives; you can get this sort
> of pause after fd0 is found as well.
> 
> Changing "wd*	at wdc? drive ?" to (in your case)
> 
> wd0	at wdc0 drive 0
> wd1	at wdc0 drive 1
> 
> because of
> 
> >   wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <WDC AC33100H>
> ...
> >   wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: <ST32140A>
> 
> would eliminate this delay.

I tried this, and it didn't work -- there is still a long delay after 
the messages come out. Another person suggested that the system could be
looking for the second IDE controller, but I am pretty sure that I have
the wdc1 part of my kernel config file commented out. 


Brian

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