linux-kernel - sata question

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Message-id: <200810051127.50809.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:27:50 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: sata question

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
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