On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 05:02:50 +0100 "Paul Rolland" <rol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Stephen > > > I am seeing a long pause on bootup of this Core2 system if I enable > > AHCI in the BIOS. There is only one disc in this system, so when it > > tries ata2 it is talking to an empty connector. If I turn off AHCI > > then it seems to be okay. > > Looks like you have some kind of Asus Mobo... Is that correct ? > It seems that you have the ata2 port that is connected not to a disk, > but to another disk controller. > > Robert Ancock wrote me : > "There is something connected, I believe what's actually there on this > board on that port is the SiI4723 chip which is connected to two other > SATA ports. For whatever reason it gets detected as a drive, and it also > seems to be not responding until we do a few resets.. > > http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=64"; > > regarding my P5W DH Deluxe motherboard. > To date, I still don't have any solution for that problem... but it seems > you have some advance as you wrote : "If I turn off AHCI > then it seems to be okay." > > I need to test this on my machine too... Could it be the additional RAID controller (not used). I turned it off in BIOS as well. Maybe if I turned the other ports on, but then it would have to probe them. - 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
