Pause at kernel boot

[DAVID BALAZIC]

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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