LinuxLists.cc - IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"

2004-10-23 20:48:21

Subject: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"

I have no problems (I hope!), but the warnings I get when linux (2.6.9)
tries to probe a non existant IDE device (controller/channel (?) not
hard disk) are slightly over the top..

1. Are these warnings usual for a nonexistant IDE drive?
2. Could they be toned down?

Exclamation marks might be appropriate if after the SIS ide controller
had been detected one of its channels (ide0/1) could not be probed, but
unless my hardware is not reacting as expected they are just "noise".

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD1200BB-00DWA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-5232K, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide3...
ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide4...
ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe !
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4

2004-10-24 01:33:22

by Kurt Wall

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Subject: Re: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 08:47:33PM +0000, Alan Jenkins took 46 lines to write:
> I have no problems (I hope!), but the warnings I get when linux (2.6.9)
> tries to probe a non existant IDE device (controller/channel (?) not
> hard disk) are slightly over the top..
>
> 1. Are these warnings usual for a nonexistant IDE drive?
> 2. Could they be toned down?

Disable CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC
- or -
Use the ideX=noprobe boot parm, replacing X with the interface number
not to probe.

Kurt
--
A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.

2004-10-24 12:43:54

by Nick Warne

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Subject: Re: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"

>> 1. Are these warnings usual for a nonexistant IDE drive?
>> 2. Could they be toned down?

> Disable CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC
> - or -
> Use the ideX=noprobe boot parm, replacing X with the interface number
> not to probe.

> Kurt

I started to get these messages in logs since building 2.6.9, and a google
reveals this from Alan Cox:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-September/msg00300.html

So, will these be turned off, or do we have to follow above instructions?

Nick
--
"When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, Give a whistle..."

2004-10-24 12:51:58

by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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Subject: Re: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:43:50 +0100, Nick Warne <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 1. Are these warnings usual for a nonexistant IDE drive?
> >> 2. Could they be toned down?
>
> > Disable CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC
> > - or -
> > Use the ideX=noprobe boot parm, replacing X with the interface number
> > not to probe.
>
> > Kurt
>
> I started to get these messages in logs since building 2.6.9, and a google
> reveals this from Alan Cox:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-September/msg00300.html
>
> So, will these be turned off, or do we have to follow above instructions?

Send a patch and it will be turned off (printks should be replaced by
pr_debugs). :)

It is still a good thing to disable ide-generic if it is not needed
(faster boot).

2004-10-26 19:35:25

by Alan Jenkins

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Subject: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"

2004-10-27 16:29:14

by Alan

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Subject: Re: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"

On Maw, 2004-10-26 at 20:35, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> I have no problems (I hope!), but the warnings I get when linux (2.6.9)
> tries to probe a non existant IDE device (controller/channel (?) not
> hard disk) are slightly over the top..

They are KERN_DEBUG, and they can probably just go away now.