Pause at kernel boot

[Richard Shaw]

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"?

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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