Fedora 7 has solved this problem for my hardware. Its latest kernel, 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7, no longer needs 'irqpoll' (here, anyway) to get around the long boot-up delay and the lack of access to some ide resources.
This is a little bit ahead of the 2.6.22 'upstream' kernel patch rumored to address this problem. The irqpoll work-around has been a satisfactory work-around for my ubuntu install. I can't say I've found any downside to it in my uses of linux, which are all pretty tame things like wireless, firefox, openoffice and such. -- ATA errors cause LONG boot time in Feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109130 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
