Red Hat nash problem
Jeremy Conlin
jlconlin at umich.edu
Fri Sep 10 22:40:32 UTC 2004
On Sep 10, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:00:08PM +0100, Paul Furness wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm. It looks like it's taking its time detecting the SCSI devices.
>> All
>
> Detection of SCSI devices can take a long time, a very long time.
>
I left the machine trying to boot over night. I really don't think it
should take 12+ hours.
> Absent devices are discovered with a timeout that can be VERY long.
> This may be one of the cases where you want to disable hardware
> rediscovery in the normal boot sequence once a full discovery had
> taken place.
>
How can I disable the hardware (re)discovery?
> Bottom line is that devices that are healthy will be quick. It is the
> empty holes that take time.
>
I have a SCSI RAID device with only 3/6 hard drive slots filled. I
don't think that should make it take a LONG time to boot.
Thanks,
Jeremy
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