There is a problem in some hardware where the kernel will stall for
35 seconds waiting for disks that dont exist. This patch will skip
waiting for the BSY-bit on ide-drives to go away if you set
hdx=noprobe as a kernel option and the disk is not marked
as 'present' (like when you set the geometry b
On Friday 16 November 2007, Jonas Stare wrote:
> There is a problem in some hardware where the kernel will stall for
> 35 seconds waiting for disks that dont exist. This patch will skip
> waiting for the BSY-bit on ide-drives to go away if you set
> hdx=noprobe as a kernel option and the disk is no