Pause at kernel boot

[DAVID BALAZIC]

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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