Re: dfly hangs about a minute on the boot up when it's trying to searc

So my Sil controller can be cheap shit then? :P



"Bill Hacker" <[e-mail]> wrote in message 
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> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:18:36AM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
>>
>>>Problem exists on any OS that does its own scanning.
>>>And there is nothing we can do to change that, save
>>>skipping the device in ACPI if it is not intended
>>>for our use.
>>
>>
>> I disagree. Compare boot time of a pure ATA machine with and
>> without ATAPICAM, the default scan timeout of CAM is long enough
>> to trigger this.
>>
>> Joerg
>
> Sorry for the delay -  been checking controllers and such ....
> not a lot of good news w/r the cheap seats controllers.....
>
> More when I have something less subjective...
>
> I did say "cheap"?  One of two Sil 3114 controllers had a burr
> on the cardedge that had to be cleaned up with needle files.  :-(
>
> There will be more like that, so we need *someplace* else
> to keep the discussion of such junk out of coder's faces.
>
> Bill