Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh <at> kernel.crashing.org> writes: > This looks like bogus HW, or bogus list of IDE interfaces ...
How can I test to see if this is the case? > > The IDE layer waits up to 30 seconds for a device to drop it's busy bit, > which is necessary for some drives that aren't fully initialized yet. Sure, make sense. > I suspect in your case, it's reading "ff", which indicates either that > there is no hardware where the kernel tries to probe, or that there is > bogus IDE interfaces which don't properly have the D7 line pulled low so > that BUSY appears not set in absence of a drive. Right. How do I find the value of D7? > I'm not sure how the list of intefaces is probed on this machine, that's > probably where the problem is. Thanks, Richard Hughes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/