Pause at kernel boot

DAVID BALAZIC david.balazic at uni-mb.si
Wed Oct 15 08:57:10 UTC 2003


From: DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic at uni-mb.si>

>>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 ...

OK, I looked into /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/ide.txt
and the correct syntax is :

hdg=none

You can also try this :

ide3=noprobe

Regards,
David

>
>>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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