Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261294AbUJWUsV (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:48:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261278AbUJWUsE (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:48:04 -0400 Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk ([144.32.128.246]:8320 "EHLO mail-gw1.york.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbUJWUrR convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:47:17 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:47:33 +0000 From: Alan Jenkins Subject: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Balsa 2.2.5 Message-Id: <1098564453l.9607l.0l@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; DelSp=Yes Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: aj504@york.ac.uk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1866 Lines: 46 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/