hi all i am pasting few lines of dmesg, it says IRQ probe on the hdc and hdd, which take some time, and makes the system to take more time to boot. all i want to ask is what is IRQ probe and how to stop the irq probe, if required? thanks sudeep
DE: VIA vt82c596a (rev 09) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: SAMSUNG SV4012H, ATA DISK drive hdb: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive blk: queue c03a4260, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdc: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdc: no response (status = 0x0a) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdd: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8) hdd: no response (status = 0x0a) ----------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE ------------------------------------------------------------ This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are solely for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by any other person is strictly prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify the sender by reply email and then destroy the message. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to official business of NIIT shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by NIIT. Any information contained in this email, when addressed to NIIT Clients is subject to the terms and conditions in governing client contract. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd