I never found a way around it, I eventually just disabled the drivers in the kernel and used pata. You may have luck with the libata drivers. I never tried those.
--Iggy On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:08 am, Robert Cole wrote: > Sorry for the cross-post but no one in gentoo-user seemed to know anything > about this. Not sure if it's a kernel setting, bug, or what yet but I figured > the best way to find out is toss it to the devs. :) > > I have only one drive on the raid controller right now but the kernel wants to > keep looking for another drive and it takes a LONG time. Is there a way to > get it to not keep looking? > > SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:02:04.0 > SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2 > SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100% native mode on irq 21 > � � ide2: MMIO-DMA at 0xf8806000-0xf8806007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio > � � ide3: MMIO-DMA at 0xf8806008-0xf880600f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio > hde: ST3120023AS, ATA DISK drive > ide2 at 0xf8806080-0xf8806087,0xf880608a on irq 21 > hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) > hdg: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive > hdg: no response (status = 0xfe) > hde: max request size: 7KiB > hde: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133) > �/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 > > > Each of those no responses take about a minute to come back. > > This is a 2.6.0-test10-mm1 kernel but it does the exact same thing on the 2.4 > kernels. > > Also note this is a SATA drive and the only SATA connections on the system > board are to the raid controller which doesn't allow disabling just the one > drive port. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net Gentoo -- http://gentoo.brianandsara.net -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
