Pause at kernel boot

[DAVID BALAZIC]

>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?

yes

> Is there a way to tell it to stop looking for a
>drive there?

A kernel command line parameter, someting like hdg=none or
hdg=noprobe. Check the docs :-)
I would look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ first ...

>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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