From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: IDE warning: "Wait for ready failed before probe!"
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:55 +0100
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> A couple of mails with Bartlomiej assured me that it isn't required on 
> modern(ish) machines that have PCI (in theory), so do not need that option.

> That will stop the probe, and the post from Alan re the Redhat thread
> suggests it is a debug warning anyway that maybe was never 
> removed.

*Reboot*

Also I forgot, Bartlomiej said machine would reboot faster.  *Wow* does it 
ever \o/

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586a (rev 27) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

No probes on wonky legacy stuff, all works :) :).

I really think the kconfig help on the CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC needs updating 
instead of the 'if unsure say Y'.  I would submit a patch, but I don't really 
know what the hell I am talking about on this subject.

Thanks Bartlomiej :)

Nick

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