Bug 4064

Summary:	Timeout during IDE probe
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Peter Kovář (peter.kovar)
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (bzolnier)
Status:	REJECTED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.9	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Peter Kovář 2005-01-19 06:19:55 UTC

Hardware Environment: TOSHIBA notebook based on Intel 82855PM & 82801DBM (ICH4-M)

Problem Description: Wait during boot until timeout occurs while probing for
nonexisting IDE3, IDE4, IDE5

Steps to reproduce:
Recompilation of kernel w/ following modification avoids wait and helped to
speed up boot sequence.

include/asm-i386/ide.h
#define MAX_HWIFS	2

Comment 1 Peter Kovář 2005-01-25 23:35:54 UTC

Maybe it's just on this line of nice HW, but Linux 2.4 as well as FreeBSD 5.3
are booting without nasty wait.

Comment 2 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 2005-02-08 15:34:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3615 ***