Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Mark Heslep writes:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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.
Same with mptscsi / mptbase here. At least 30 (x2 - once in the bios
post and again when the kernel driver loads)
Well, BIOS POST you can't do anything about.
Unless we can use Linux BIOS. I've got a couple scsi boxes that are
candidates.
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?
Dont know if LSI Logic / Symbios is as eager to please.
