Pause at kernel boot

[rshaw5 at midsouth.rr.com]

Well, I don't have a drive connected to the second SATA channel, so basicly it's timing out waiting for a response to a drive that doesn't exist? Is there a way to tell it to stop looking for a drive there?

Thanks,
Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic at uni-mb.si>
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:06 am
Subject: Re: Pause at kernel boot

> Richard Shaw <rshaw5 at midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> >No, its only about 10 or 15 seconds, just enough to be annoying 
> but not
> >bad enough to be a show stopper. I guess I'll just wait for 0.95 
> since>up2date stopped working with out some work-a-rounds.
> >
> >Another question, how does it label drives? Because I have a standard
> >ATA-133 primary and secondary (a/b/c/d) and two SATA channels 
> which are
> >only one drive each, (e/f). Which the SATA drive is labeled 
> correctly as
> >"e". How does it get to "g"?
> 
> A SATA channel is two units (hde/hdf and hdg/hdh), at least in 
> software,even if really only one unit can be connected.
> Backward compatibility and stuff...
> 
> >
> >Richard
> >
> >On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 07:36, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
> >> From: Richard Shaw <rshaw5 at midsouth.rr.com>
> >> 
> >> >I just installed severn 2 on my ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe and I have a 
> strange>> >pause when booting. I'm using a 120GB SATA Maxtor drive 
> with the Silicon
> >> >Image SiI3112 onboard SATA. I've included the part of dmesg 
> that applies
> >> >along with where the pause is.
> >> 
> >> Is the pause 30 seconds long ?
> >> Then the kernel is just trying to detect hdg, and when there is 
> no response,
> >> it concludes that there is no drive attached.
> >> 
> >> The pause could be shortened.
> >> I have the same SiI 3112 SATA controller and noticed the same 
> thing.>> As I have no SATA drives, I have 2x30 seconds of pause, 
> 30 seconds
> >> for each channel. The driver author ( Andre Hedrcik, IIRC ) said
> >> that he might shorten it down ,"when he has time" :-)
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >Richard
> >> >
> >> >
> >> ><dmesg>
> >> >Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
> >> >ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> >> >idebus=xx
> >> >NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
> >> >NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
> >> >NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >> >AMD_IDE: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) UDMA100 
> controller on
> >> >pci00:09.0
> >> >    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> >> >    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> >> >SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0
> >> >SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
> >> >SiI3112 Serial ATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >> >    ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> >> >    ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> >> >hdb: C/H/S=20510/81/100 from BIOS ignored
> >> >hda: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> >> >hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> >> >hdb: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady 
> SeekComplete Error
> >> >}
> >> >hdb: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04
> >> >ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting. Oh, well.
> >> >hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-115 0133, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM 
> drive>> >hde: Maxtor 6Y120M0, ATA DISK drive
> >> >blk: queue c0407118, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> >> >*** Pauses Here ***
> >> >hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
> >> >ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> >> >ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> >> >ide2 at 0xe0815080-0xe0815087,0xe081508a on irq 11
> >> >hde: attached ide-disk driver.
> >> >hde: host protected area => 1
> >> >hde: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, 
> CHS=238216/16/63>> >hdb: attached ide-floppy driver.
> >> >hdb: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
> >> >hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> >> >Partition check:
> >> > hdb: hdb4
> >> > hde: [PTBL] [14946/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < hde5 hde6 >
> >> >ide: late registration of driver.
> >> ></dmesg>
> >> >
> >> >
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