Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:03:07 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2005-02-01 at 23:18, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:22 +0000, 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 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. > > I'm not sure how the list of intefaces is probed on this machine, that's > probably where the problem is.
Known, fixed
There is a patch that allows probing for ISA ide4,5,6 etc only if there is no PCI bus
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