From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: rol@as2917.net
Cc: 'Jeff Garzik' <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070306211914.3e983a93@oldman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <051701c7606d$7c93ef00$4b00a8c0@donald>
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 05:02:50 +0100
"Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-07 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 23:07 30 second timeout on bootup with Intel ICH7 and AHCI (2.6.21-rc2) Stephen Hemminger
2007-03-07 4:02 ` Paul Rolland
2007-03-07 5:19 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-03-07 16:03 ` 30 second timeout on bootup with Intel ICH7 and AHCI(2.6.21-rc2) Paul Rolland
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