Subject: Re: Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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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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