Linux hangs during IDE initialization at boot for 30 sec

[Michael Brade <brade@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>]

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Hi,

since at least kernel 2.6.9 I'm having a problem booting linux - it hangs 
after this

Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-30, ATA DISK drive
elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

After about 30 seconds everything continues fine with

hda: max request size: 128KiB

I found additional lines in the log just before the line above:

Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...

But I only have ide0 and ide1. This problem persists even with 2.6.11-rc2. For 
the last test I removed every option from the kernel that is not needed, but 
the problem stays. So I'm sure it's not because of ACPI or PNP or the like.

With 2.6.11-rc2 I get in my syslog:

Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: ICH3M: chipset revision 2
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: ICH3M: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs 
later
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xcfa0-0xcfa7, BIOS 
settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel:     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xcfa8-0xcfaf, BIOS 
settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: Probing IDE interface ide0...
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: hda: HITACHI_DK23DA-30, ATA DISK drive
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: DEV: registering device: ID = 'ide0'
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide0
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: DEV: registering device: ID = '0.0'
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: PM: Adding info for ide:0.0
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: bus ide: add device 0.0
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: Probing IDE interface ide1...
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2212, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM 
drive
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: DEV: registering device: ID = 'ide1'
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide1
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: DEV: registering device: ID = '1.0'
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: PM: Adding info for ide:1.0
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: bus ide: add device 1.0
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: bus pci: add driver PIIX_IDE
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: bound device '0000:00:1f.1' to driver 
'PIIX_IDE'
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: bus pci: add driver PCI_IDE
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: Probing IDE interface ide3...
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: Probing IDE interface ide4...
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe !
---> I guess the line above is the reason for the wait <---
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: Probing IDE interface ide5...
Feb  1 11:30:02 newton kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB

Userspace is debian sid, my computer is a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite 2410-404), 
you can find some information including an lspci on 
http://www.thorstenhaas.de/toshiba2410/. Attached's my kernel config.

Please CC me, I'm not subscribed, thanks.

Cheers,
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