From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: 30 second timeout on bootup with Intel ICH7 and AHCI (2.6.21-rc2) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:19:14 -0800 Message-ID: <20070306211914.3e983a93@oldman> References: <20070306150739.21e01b67@freekitty> <051701c7606d$7c93ef00$4b00a8c0@donald> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:49218 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932079AbXCGFT0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:19:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <051701c7606d$7c93ef00$4b00a8c0@donald> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: rol@as2917.net Cc: 'Jeff Garzik' , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 05:02:50 +0100 "Paul Rolland" wrote: > Hello Stephen > > > I am seeing a long pause on bootup of this Core2 system if I enable > > AHCI in the BIOS. There is only one disc in this system, so when it > > tries ata2 it is talking to an empty connector. If I turn off AHCI > > then it seems to be okay. > > Looks like you have some kind of Asus Mobo... Is that correct ? > It seems that you have the ata2 port that is connected not to a disk, > but to another disk controller. > > Robert Ancock wrote me : > "There is something connected, I believe what's actually there on this > board on that port is the SiI4723 chip which is connected to two other > SATA ports. For whatever reason it gets detected as a drive, and it also > seems to be not responding until we do a few resets.. > > http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=64" > > regarding my P5W DH Deluxe motherboard. > To date, I still don't have any solution for that problem... but it seems > you have some advance as you wrote : "If I turn off AHCI > then it seems to be okay." > > I need to test this on my machine too... Could it be the additional RAID controller (not used). I turned it off in BIOS as well. Maybe if I turned the other ports on, but then it would have to probe them.