From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:03:07 +0000 Message-ID: <1107332790.14787.118.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200502011257.40059.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <1107299901.5624.28.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:62852 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263006AbVBCLII (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:08:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1107299901.5624.28.camel@gaston> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: ee21rh@surrey.ac.uk, Linux Kernel Mailing List , list linux-ide On Maw, 2005-02-01 at 23:18, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:22 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:57:33 +0100, Michael Brade wrote: > I suspect in your case, it's reading "ff", which indicates either that > there is no hardware where the kernel tries to probe, or that there is > bogus IDE interfaces which don't properly have the D7 line pulled low so > that BUSY appears not set in absence of a drive. > > I'm not sure how the list of intefaces is probed on this machine, that's > probably where the problem is. Known, fixed There is a patch that allows probing for ISA ide4,5,6 etc only if there is no PCI bus