From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rolf Offermanns Subject: Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:22:09 +0100 Message-ID: <200502041122.09390.roffermanns@sysgo.com> References: <200502011257.40059.brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <200502031358.16827.roffermanns@sysgo.com> <1107469032.2363.44.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from [62.8.134.5] ([62.8.134.5]:23240 "EHLO mailgate2.sysgo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261660AbVBDKWM (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 05:22:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1107469032.2363.44.camel@gaston> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: list linux-ide On Thursday 03 February 2005 23:17, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Do not register interfaces that you know aren't populated... > > One thing is, the wait code does explicitely check for a value of 0xff > and exists in this case (assuming this means no HW at all is wired > there). So for some reason, you interface is returning something else, > it would be interesting to "see" what value you are getting. It's 0xff like you guessed in the first reply. As soon, as I connect a drive (no need to turn it on actually), everything is fine. -Rolf -- Rolf Offermanns SYSGO AG Tel.: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 Fax: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim http://www.sysgo.com