RamFAST Delay

[pho@vmsa.oac.uci.edu]

** I'm posting this for my cousin Long **

> What bugs me is that weird message at boot time that says the card is
> scoping the SCSI bus looking for devices.  There's only one device, and why
> oh why can't the SCSI card deal with that and get on with its life?
>
> The big question then is, "Is there anyway to get the card to quit with the
> darn message and just boot the machine?"

Here's the fix if this is the problem you're experiencing.  The RamFAST saves
a list of devices that are connected to the RamFAST.  If you add any new
devices to the chain their names will be added to the device list.  The
problem is that if you disconnect a device from the chain its name is still
on the device list. Unless you also remove the device from the device list,
when you boot up the system the RamFAST will go through the list of devices
and wait for an acknowledgement from each and every one of them.  When it
gets to a device that has been disconnected but is still on the list it will
wait to receive an acknowledgement from that device until the timeout period
expires.  This is the problem you might be experiencing.  To fix the problem,
simply run the RamFAST utility.  Go to the 'Edit' menu where it will show the
device list.  Locate the device(s) that is no longer connected and remove it
from the list.  I should mention that changing the ID of device might also
cause this problem.