Tejun, Alan,

   Everything works when I disable the USB in the bios settings.  I was also able to remove the irqpoll kernel parameter after turning off bios USB. The particularly interesting thing is that the USB mouse still works, as does a USB 2.0 drive I have connected.  The Compact Flash drive at /dev/sda works fine, and the connected SATA drive works as well, though I need to do some testing to see how well these devices are performing. 

Using the irqpoll also made things work except for once.  In that case, I got the same errors, delayed bootup, and missing SATA drive.

Is there a new "hdparm like" tool for working with the new drives/drivers to be able to read/set parameters, run various tests, etc?

This motherboard is an IBT MB899 mini-ITX.

Thanks for the guidance with this!

C. W. Wright




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> From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
> To: osb972ww-linuxczmil@yahoo.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:56:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: 2.6.24.X: SATA/AHCI related boot delay. - not with 2.6.24.3
> 
> Hello,
> 
> osb972ww-linuxczmil@yahoo.com wrote:
> > setting irqpoll fixed both problems, and there are no "nasty grams"
> > in dmesg now.   The original reason I was trying to use the hdparm -u
> > on /dev/sda was because it was hanging for a few seconds when doing
> > writes to the CFdisk, and in the past that was the kind of thing that
> > hdparm -u would generally fix.
> 
> libata drivers don't need or support hdparm -u settings.
> 
> >  Now with the irqpoll kernel option,
> > the /dev/sdb SATA drive was found, and I can mount it and write to
> > it.  The CFcard /dev/sda is also responding to writes better than
> > before.
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion to use irqpoll.    What is the problem
> > within the driver(s) that is requiring irqpoll. ?
> 
> Well, IRQ 18 is taken offline during USB initialization.  The IRQ is
> shared with the SATA controller, so SATA controller doesn't work either.
>  It isn't clear why the IRQ handler is taken offline.  It could be the
> USB controller but can also be the SATA controller.  Does not loading
> usb driver make any difference?
> 
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