From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.24.X: SATA/AHCI related boot delay. - not with 2.6.24.3 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:18:40 +0900 Message-ID: <47E4C0E0.4080307@gmail.com> References: <810485.52126.qm@web34507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.169]:25532 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753368AbYCVISs (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:18:48 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so1964806wff.4 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:18:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <810485.52126.qm@web34507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: osb972ww-linuxczmil@yahoo.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list Hello, osb972ww-linuxczmil@yahoo.com wrote: > Tejun, Alan, > > Everything works when I disable the USB in the bios settings. I was > also able to remove the irqpoll kernel parameter after turning off > bios USB. The particularly interesting thing is that the USB mouse > still works, as does a USB 2.0 drive I have connected. The Compact > Flash drive at /dev/sda works fine, and the connected SATA drive > works as well, though I need to do some testing to see how well these > devices are performing. Hmmm.. Can you please file a bug report against USB subsystem on bugzilla.kernel.org and cc me? USB on your system is triggering IRQ storm. > Using the irqpoll also made things work except for once. In that > case, I got the same errors, delayed bootup, and missing SATA drive. Hmmm.. Do you have logs? > Is there a new "hdparm like" tool for working with the new > drives/drivers to be able to read/set parameters, run various tests, > etc? hdparm will still be the utility of choice but libata doesn't allow many settings IDE used to and libata probably will never implement some of IDE's tunables. Is there any specific setting you have in mind? Thanks. -- tejun