From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net>
Subject: RE: 30 second timeout on bootup with Intel ICH7 and AHCI(2.6.21-rc2)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:03:03 +0100
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To: 'Stephen Hemminger' <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
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Hello,

> 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.

Yes, that's it !

I tried to use : ata2=noprobe in the boot parameters, but that seems
to be a no-op... Too bad, 'cos' I know for sure I don't want to connect
something on this raid controller, and that would help me gain at least
30s at boot time...

Or maybe the syntax is wrong ?

Regards,
Paul