From: Rolf Offermanns <roffermanns@sysgo.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:58:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502031358.16827.roffermanns@sysgo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107299901.5624.28.camel@gaston>
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 00:18, you wrote:
>
> The IDE layer waits up to 30 seconds for a device to drop it's busy bit,
> which is necessary for some drives that aren't fully initialized yet.
>
> 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 have the same kind of bogus hardware here. What would be the right place to
workaround this? (unfortunately it's not possible to fix/change the
hardware).
-Rolf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 12:58 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <200502011257.40059.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
[not found] ` <pan.2005.02.01.20.21.46.334334@surrey.ac.uk>
2005-02-01 23:18 ` Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-03 10:03 ` Alan Cox
2005-02-03 12:58 ` Rolf Offermanns [this message]
2005-02-03 22:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-04 10:22 ` Rolf Offermanns
2005-02-04 23:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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