On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:28:40 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Final report, seeing -mm2 is out: > > - Netconsole works. (grumblestupidsusefirewallgrumble) > > - The hang during boot only happens with kernels compiled with > CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL=y > It also doesn't always happen at the same point in the boot sequence. > I'm suspecting it might be triggered by some network packet. > Anyway, it's obviously *not* a SATA problem. > (That was just me jumping to conclusions, because ...) I don't remember seeing a report of the CIFS hang. It might be caused by bkl-removal-convert-cifs-over-to-unlocked_ioctl.patch, but it's hard to see how that could affect things before userspace has started. > - That leaves only the messages > > ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) > ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) > > and accompanying delays during boot, for each installed SATA disk. > I'll try to find the time to retest this with 2.6.25-rc8-mm2. That would be good, thanks. -- 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