Hello Hans, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:09:00 -0300 Norberto Bensa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > > I believe that if I load piix first (the PATA driver for Intel > > > > chipset) I will not get this delay. > > > > > > I'm not sure about that. > > > Are you sure that it's really ata_piix causing the delay? > > > > Well... I've tried this config: > > > > CONFIG_IDE=y > > CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS=4 > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y > > CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y > > CONFIG_ATA=m > > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=m > > CONFIG_SATA_INTEL_COMBINED=y > > Ahh, I see. So if you were compiling this stuff all into the kernel > (I guess it was like this before, i.e. w/ the 15sec delay),
Nope. As modules. I use genkernel. > But I guess you didn't expect that to happen: It sounds as if you were > assuming that CONFIG_ATA_PIIX only configures SATA support. Nope. I knew 2.6.19 handles PATA too. I didn't expect the ~15secs delay. > > In other words: > > > > PATA PIIX built-in > > it was two times with the old statically compiled version, once via old > IDE layer, once via libata. Nope. As I said, everything was modules. > > > No delay. /dev/sda continues to be /dev/sda. Same for /dev/hda > > But you need an initrd. Yup. That's how I like it :) > Currently it's still experimental, but I would > suggest at least trying to use libata for all devices. I've tried. But I get a ~15secs delay loading ata_piix. Best regards, Norberto
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