Mark Heslep writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Same with mptscsi / mptbase here. At least 30 (x2 - once in the bios post and again when the kernel driver loads)Arjan van de Ven writes:
Add 30 seconds if you're booting off aic79xx.o
Why does loading that gawd-awful microcode take so long?
I don't notice ANY delay when booting XP on the same box.
It shouldn't take more than one or two seconds to initialize the SCSI card.
Well, BIOS POST you can't do anything about.
But XP initializes an Adaptec SCSI controller in, at most, 1-2 seconds.
No way did Microsoft write the SCSI driver code themselves. It had to have come from Adaptec, at some point down the line.
So, if Adaptec is, supposedly, gung-ho about Linux these days, why can't they produce a version of aic7xxx.ko that doesn't give you plenty of time to brew a pot of coffee, before it's done whatever the hell it's doing?
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