Bug 1009

Summary:	(ide sii) Startup hangs with SiI 3112 driver compiled in for some time
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Felix Seeger (felix.seeger)
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (bzolnier)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	normal	CC:	bunk, jgarzik
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.0-test2	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Felix Seeger 2003-07-28 23:32:39 UTC

Distribution: Debian unstable 
Hardware Environment: Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Nforce2) with SiI 3112 
Software Environment: plain 2.6.0-test2, gcc 3.3.1 
Problem Description: 
The driver for my SATA chip need some minutes at bootup because I don't have any devices 
connected to it. It probes for disks with an timeout 3 times per disk (if I am right) 
It takes way to long to startup with an SiI 3112 driver enabled kernel, but without disks 
connected to it. 
 
Steps to reproduce: 
Build the SiI 3112 driver into the kernel 
Remove both disks from the controller 
Startup and wait

Comment 1 davide.fanciola 2003-12-01 02:53:17 UTC

Hello,

on the same hardware I'm having the same problems...

but I managed to have a nice startup passing this params to the kernel at boot :

ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0

I had to go til ide9, since the controller was taking the first ide channel free.

Comment 2 Jeff Garzik 2004-01-30 17:54:12 UTC

Just to confirm... this is CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE and not CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL,
correct?

Comment 3 Felix Seeger 2004-02-04 23:14:52 UTC

Yes, I think so

Comment 4 Dominik Brodowski 2005-11-16 14:24:15 UTC

Is this still a problem with, let's say, 2.6.14?

Comment 5 Adrian Bunk 2006-04-15 02:06:24 UTC

I'm assuming this issue is already fixed in recent 2.6 kernels.

Please reopen this bug if it's still present in kernel 2.6.16.5.