From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761131AbYJEQfv (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:35:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758902AbYJEQ14 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:27:56 -0400 Received: from vms172067pub.verizon.net ([206.46.172.67]:48586 "EHLO vms172067pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758926AbYJEQ1y (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:27:54 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3600 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:27:54 EDT Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:27:50 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: sata question To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-id: <200810051127.50809.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings all; My new ASUS M2N-SLI delux mobo has copius sata ports, at least 8. It is very slow to boot, like 30 seconds between the end of the bios stuff and the "grub stage 2 loading" popping up on screen. I suspect this may be due to the equivalent of the old scsi 'scan all luns' function, and back in my amiga days there was a flag we could set that told the kickstart that this was the last drive, don't check the rest. As I only have one sata drive, and it is not part of the operating system itself, is there a similar flag I can set in the mbr of that drive that says this is the last drive, don't spend time checking the rest of the addresses? Properly applied, that should speed up a reboot by at least 30 seconds I'd think. I have updated the bios to the newest stable. There is one newer, beta version. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally. :-) -- Larry Wall in <1991May31.181659.28817@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>