On my FreeBSD CI system, on a relatively old server, I was seeing "disk controller not ready" errors when trying the format the bootstrap disk pack when building ITS with simh. This error occurred consistently when running on CI server, but did not happen when entering the commands manually.
The fix is to add a 1 second delay before trying to format the bootstrap pack. This fixes the problem seen in CI and has no effect when building on may (much faster Apple M1) laptop.
On my FreeBSD CI system, on a relatively old server, I was seeing "disk controller not ready" errors when trying the format the bootstrap disk pack when building ITS with simh. This error occurred consistently when running on CI server, but did not happen when entering the commands manually.
The fix is to add a 1 second delay before trying to format the bootstrap pack. This fixes the problem seen in CI and has no effect when building on may (much faster Apple M1) laptop.