From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: 2.6.24.X: SATA/AHCI related boot delay. - not with 2.6.24.3 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:36:19 +0900 Message-ID: <47DF70F3.9080305@gmail.com> References: <200803091922.33083.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <47D5320E.8020107@gmail.com> <200803170816.50597.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:23445 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbYCRHg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:36:26 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so6798406wah.23 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:36:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200803170816.50597.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Volker Armin Hemmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > I tried some more stuff, replaced the cables, played with bios settings. > > No change. > > Then I updated to 2.6.24.3 - and no hangs or 'softreset' failures anymore. I don't see any libata changes which can cause such difference. Weird. Is this result reliably reproducible? > The only change to other kernels was making ehci-hcd modular. Hmmm... > I checked already, other kernels still have the IDENTITY error on coldboot and > the softreset failure on reboot even with the changed config. Hmmm... > 2.6.24.2 and 2.6.24.3 both have the reiser4 patch added. > > So > 2.6.24.2 = bad > 2.6.24.3 = good > 2.6.25-rc5 = bad > > Setting AHCI in bios still results in timeouts and harddisks not found. Does pci=nomsi help? -- tejun