Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:29:10 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/ide/ide-probe.c, kernel 2.6.23.1 |
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> > that they were not in a BSY state. The problem was most likely in the > > hardware but this patch enables you to ignore waiting for disks by > > setting hdX=noprobe (and not setting the geometry by hand) as a kernel > > option.
Probably someone saving a billionth of a cent on a resistor.
> > - SELECT_DRIVE(&hwif->drives[1]); > > - hwif->OUTB(8, hwif->io_ports[IDE_CONTROL_OFFSET]); > > - mdelay(2); > > - rc = ide_wait_not_busy(hwif, 35000);
Please first verify if you see the same problem with the newer ATA drivers. I suspect you will and if so we should be fixing those not the legacy drivers (or as well as ..)
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