Red Hat nash problem

[Jeremy Conlin]

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