On 10/19/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Torsten Kaiser wrote: > > Just remebered another thing about sata_sil24 that popped up with 2.6.23-mm1. > > With this kernel version (comparing to 2.6.23-rc8-mm1) the port > > probing time goes up from ~0.5 seconds per port/drive to ~2 seconds. > > Also the SControl changed: > > > > 2.6.23-rc8-mm1: > > [ 4.110000] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > > 2.6.23-mm1: > > [ 5.930000] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) > > > > But except for increased delay during boot no errors can seen, the > > drives work normally. > > Yeah, PARTIAL / SLUMBER mode restriction is lifted. Dunno whether > that's related to the increased delay tho. Will investigate. But don't invest too much time into this. That the delay is part of the broken ACPI of this board/bios seems very likely to me. (And apart from that delay there seems to be no other changes.) Torsten - 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