Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle *groan*

[Marcin Jessa]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:47:52 +0800
Wade <waderr at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 02/12/05, Emiel Kollof <coolvibe at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > See subject for a pet peeve I've had for a while...
> >
> > Might it be an idea to copy FreeBSD here and shorten that to, say,
> > 5 seconds by default? I know it's tunable, but it will shorten boot
> > times a bit for people that are too lazy like me :)
> >
> > That and 15 seconds seems a bit too long. Know of any hardware that
> > actually needs that long to settle in? (and don't you guys go dig
> > up the most antiquated SCSI peripherals that actually do need 15
> > seconds ;) ) If yes, I'll just shut up about this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Emiel
> > --
> 
> The real pain for me is,

What would you do with the 15 seconds you save once in a while?
It's not really a problem and if you see it that way then recompile
your kernel like real men do.

> with GENERIC (eg, installation kernel), you
> end up waiting that time even when you don't have SCSI, can't it
> detect that theres nothing but IDE ?
>