Hello, Thanks for your answer. I have switched my SATA hard drive in the BIOS. Now the SATA hard drive is IDE-1 Master (becomes sda after boot), and the CD devices are IDE-2 Master and Slave (hdc and hdd afetr boot). The annoying 25 sec boot delay has disappeared. COOL! THANKS! But still there is a 5-10 sec delay after the line 'creating devices'. (This line is missing from the boot.log.) And how can I prevent the system from probing ide2, ide3, ide4, ide5? Also would like to know how to set up DMA. Should be 133 (?) for the hard drive and 66 and 33 for the CD drives. For the CD drives I tried to setup from within the YAST/Hardware/IDE DMA mode window but it failed with the "Error occured while activating changes" message. Here are the new bootup messages: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Probing IDE interface ide2... ide2: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide3... ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide4... ide4: Wait for ready failed before probe ! Probing IDE interface ide5... ide5: Wait for ready failed before probe ! ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 ...... #### there is a 5-10 sec delay somewhere here; it may be normal? md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 1.02 loaded. ata_piix version 1.02 ata_piix: combined mode detected ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ata: 0x170 IDE port busy PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87: 4003 88:207f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : ata_piix Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 > sda4 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Thanks for your help! IG
On Friday 11 February 2005 05:40, Gabor Istvan wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for your answer. I have switched my SATA hard drive in the BIOS. Now the SATA hard drive is IDE-1 Master (becomes sda after boot), and the CD devices are IDE-2 Master and Slave (hdc and hdd afetr boot). The annoying 25 sec boot delay has disappeared. COOL! THANKS!
You're welcome.
But still there is a 5-10 sec delay after the line 'creating devices'. (This line is missing from the boot.log.) And how can I prevent the system from probing ide2, ide3, ide4, ide5?
Also would like to know how to set up DMA. Should be 133 (?) for the hard drive and 66 and 33 for the CD drives. For the CD drives I tried to setup from within the YAST/Hardware/IDE DMA mode window but it failed with the "Error occured while activating changes" message.
I'm afraid I can't help with these questions. Unless I have a specific problem I rely on SuSE to correctly detect and configure my hardware. Maybe there's a kernel hacker or an engineering type on the list that knows about tweaking these settings. Jeff
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