Re: 2.6.24.X: SATA/AHCI related boot delay. - not with 2.6.24.3

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> I tried some more stuff, replaced the cables, played with bios settings.
> 
> No change.
> 
> Then I updated to 2.6.24.3 - and no hangs or 'softreset' failures anymore.

I don't see any libata changes which can cause such difference.  Weird.
 Is this result reliably reproducible?

> The only change to other kernels was making ehci-hcd modular. 

Hmmm...

> I checked already, other kernels still have the IDENTITY error on coldboot and 
> the softreset failure on reboot even with the changed config.

Hmmm...

> 2.6.24.2 and 2.6.24.3 both have the reiser4 patch added.
> 
> So
> 2.6.24.2 = bad
> 2.6.24.3 = good
> 2.6.25-rc5 = bad 
> 
> Setting AHCI in bios still results in timeouts and harddisks not found.

Does pci=nomsi help?

-- 
tejun
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