Hello, On 04/22/2010 06:36 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:

Tejun,

Roman asked on the german opensuse list if there are still ways to disable probing PATA drives:

I have have a box with Intel US15W chipset which has one SATA drive attached to it via PATA-SATA-Converter.

As I naturally want to boot the thing as fast as possible I'd like to prohibit probing the non-existant drive. Before libata you could use something like hdb=noprobe. Is there any way to do that today? Searching the web and the sources didn't turn up something usefull.

Hmm... the closest thing in libata would be "libata.force=P:norst" where P is the port number. It will skip the reset but the rest of probing might still cause delays. Maybe it's a good idea to add noprobe to libata. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org