Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-02-01 at 23:18, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:22 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:57:33 +0100, Michael Brade wrote: > I suspect in your case, it's reading "ff", which indicates either that > there is no hardware where the kernel tries t

Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-02 Thread Michael Brade
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 21:01, you wrote: > >Awesome! Thanks, booting is finally acceptably fast again :-) > >Just strange > >that it worked for the last 3 years (in fact, 7 years) with > >just about every > >kernel version that's out there... but I'm happy with the workaround. > > Was it exa

RE: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-02 Thread Aleksey Gorelov
>-Original Message- >From: Michael Brade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:55 AM >To: Aleksey Gorelov >Subject: Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec > >Hi, > >> Since you don't care about anyt

RE: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-02 Thread Aleksey Gorelov
Hi, >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Brade >Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 3:58 AM >To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec > [snip] > >

Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-02 Thread Richard Hughes
Con Kolivas kolivas.org> writes: > >>I'm not sure how the list of intefaces is probed on this machine, that's > >>probably where the problem is. > > I've read that people have had this problem go away if they disable this > option: > > < > generic/default IDE chipset support Okay I'll try

Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-02 Thread Con Kolivas
Richard Hughes wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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

Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-02 Thread Richard Hughes
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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 init

Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:22 +, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:57:33 +0100, Michael Brade wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > since at least kernel 2.6.9 I'm having a problem booting linux - it hangs > > after this > > > > Probing IDE interface ide0... > > hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-30, ATA DI

Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-01 Thread Richard Hughes
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:57:33 +0100, Michael Brade wrote: > Hi, > > since at least kernel 2.6.9 I'm having a problem booting linux - it hangs > after this > > Probing IDE interface ide0... > hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-30, ATA DISK drive > elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler > ide0 at 0

Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

2005-02-01 Thread Michael Brade
Hi, since at least kernel 2.6.9 I'm having a problem booting linux - it hangs after this Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-30, ATA DISK drive elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-RO