On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Myles Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kevin O'Connor [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:29 AM >> To: Myles Watson; [email protected] >> Subject: SeaBIOS and ATA spinup >> >> Hi, >> >> Latest SeaBIOS git should now handle the case where SeaBIOS can't find >> drives because it runs before the drives are ready. >> >> The code tries to wait for not-BSY. However, if the ide bus appears >> to be "floating", then it will stop waiting. >> >> Myles - I know you were working around this on your board. Can you >> test if the code in git works for you? > > I haven't had that problem for a while. I thought you'd already fixed it :)
It turns out that the option ROM for my VGA card was taking long enough that it allowed the drives to spin up. Once I changed cards it exposed the problem again. Latest SeaBIOS does fix it. Too many variables to keep track of :( Thanks, Myles -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
