Hi Peter, Yea, it seems to wait for that length of time before the error appears. Here is the log output of the latest patch.
menu: hda1:/boot/filo/menu.lst malloc_diag: alloc: 160 bytes (4 blocks), free: 16216 bytes (1 blocks) file_open: dev=hda1, path=/boot/filo/menu.lst find_ide_controller: found PCI IDE controller 8086:7111 prog_if=0x8a find_ide_controller: primary channel: compatibility mode find_ide_controller: cmd_base=0x1f0 ctrl_base=0x3f4 ide_software_reset: Waiting for ide0 to become ready for reset... ok init_drive: Testing for hda init_drive: Probing for hda init_drive: LBA mode, sectors=2097152 init_drive: Init device params... ok hda: LBA 1073MB: VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive init_drive: Testing for hdb init_drive: Testing for hdb ide_readmany: sector 0 to 0x0011d8e0 IDE timeout after 32000 ms while waiting for not_bsy() pio_data_in: Device not ready before sending command Disk read error dev=1 drive=0 sector=0 devread: read sector failed open_pc_partition: device read failed devopen: can't open partition 1 malloc_diag: alloc: 144 bytes (3 blocks), free: 16232 bytes (1 blocks) On 25/04/07, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:26:25AM +0100, Joe Pub wrote: > > I have applied the patch, and also enabled the IDE polling option. > > Timeout still occurs. Log included below. > > :( > > > > One thing that I have changed which I don't think will affect > > things (might be wrong here), but my version of GCC/as doesn't > > support the option -Wno-pointer-sign so I removed it. > > Yes, that's ok. > > > > ide_readmany: sector 0 to 0011d7c0 > > IDE time out waiting for not_bsy > > This should be a 32 second timeout. Is it? (32s delay before the time > out error) If not, the problem is with timing. > > Attached is a new patch with a bit more detailed debugging output, > sorry for the hassle, I should already have had this in place. :\ > > I've also made some small changes to the timer code, not sure if it > should matter though.. Try it out. > > > //Peter > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
