A couple of people reported long delays on probe with the newer kernels and Nvidia PATA. This turned out to be because the Nvidia path forgot to check the enable bits so probed empty ports. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/pata_amd.c linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/pata_amd.c --- linux.vanilla-2.6.18-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/pata_amd.c 2006-09-11 17:00:08.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/pata_amd.c 2006-09-11 17:17:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ #include <linux/libata.h> #define DRV_NAME "pata_amd" -#define DRV_VERSION "0.2.2" +#define DRV_VERSION "0.2.3" /** * timing_setup - shared timing computation and load @@ -253,11 +253,22 @@ static int nv_pre_reset(struct ata_port *ap) { static const u8 bitmask[2] = {0x03, 0xC0}; + static const struct pci_bits nv_enable_bits[] = { + { 0x50, 1, 0x02, 0x02 }, + { 0x50, 1, 0x01, 0x01 } + }; struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(ap->host->dev); u8 ata66; u16 udma; + if (!pci_test_config_bits(pdev, &nv_enable_bits[ap->port_no])) { + ata_port_disable(ap); + printk(KERN_INFO "ata%u: port disabled. ignoring.\n", ap->id); + return 0; + } + + pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x52, &ata66); if (ata66 & bitmask[ap->port_no]) ap->cbl = ATA_CBL_PATA80; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html