[ale] hdd detection

Christopher Coleman Christopher.Coleman at nsc.com
Tue Mar 28 15:02:34 EST 2006


I have 2 Sun V20Z servers running Linux which exhibit the same problem. 
The machines have 2 SCSI drives with no IDE devices. The IDE devices are 
disabled in the BIOS. This should help speed up boot time. Thanks!



Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have a device that has only one IDE port.  Not 2.  Linux keeps trying
>>to detect the drives at hdc and hdd.  This slows down boot.
>>
>>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
>>idebus=xx
>>hda: PQI IDE DiskOnModule, ATA DISK drive
>>hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
>>hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
>>hdc: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
>>hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
>>hdc: no response (status = 0x0a)
>>hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
>>hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
>>hdd: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
>>hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
>>hdd: no response (status = 0x0a)
>>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>>hda: attached ide-disk driver.
>>hda: 64000 sectors (33 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=31/32/63
>>
>>
>>Is there a way to tell the kernel that hdc and hdd or ide1 does not
>>exist?
> 
> 
> add
> 
> hdc=none hdd=none
> 
> to your kernel entry in grub.conf 
> 
> later,
> chris
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Chris Coleman






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