> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:03:44 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 41-second delay when mounting root fs. > > This sounds like a user configuration error. The adaptec has a bus > settle time in its initialisation path. Originally it was 20s, hence > for a D card (twin channel) it would take about 50s to come online > (extra 5s to scan per channel). There was a lot of argument about this, > and the value was finally made configurable as > > CONFIG_AIC79XX_RESET_DELAY_MS > > I suspect you have this set to around 15000. You can make the boot > sequence shorter by reducing this value. I believe Red Hat configures > it down to the default 5000. > > James (cc's added) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
