Hi I'm trying new libata pata support from linux-2.6.18-git3 system seems working but on startup there is a big delay while probing for ata devices these are relevant log from kernel libata version 2.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.00ac6 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 7 PCI: setting IRQ 7 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xFFA0 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xFFA8 irq 15 scsi0 : ata_piix ata1.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/100, 195371568 sectors: LBA ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi1 : ata_piix ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33 ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct access ATA FUJITSU MHV2100A 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda scsi 1:0:0:0: CD/DVD MATSHITA UJ-820D 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ...... sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 same machine with 2.6.18 and old ide modules Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 7 PCI: setting IRQ 7 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 ICH4: chipset revision 3 ICH4: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: MATSHITAUJ-820D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63 hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 ...... hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 from lspci 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8188 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 7 Region 0: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 1: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 2: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 3: I/O ports at <unassigned> Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16] Region 5: Memory at 88000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] - 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