ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 scsi0 : ata_piix scsi1 : ata_piix ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0x1810 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x1818 irq 15 ata1.00: ATAPI: MATSHITAUJ-832D, 1.02, max UDMA/33 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2: port disabled. ignoring. scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM MATSHITA UJ-832D 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 -- -- ] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 scsi2 : ata_piix scsi3 : ata_piix ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x18c8 ctl 0x18c0 bmdma 0x18b0 irq 18 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x18a8 ctl 0x180c bmdma 0x18b8 irq 18 ata3.00: ATA-7: HTS541010G9SA00, MBZOC60D, max UDMA/100 ata3.00: 195371568 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (not used) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata4: reset failed, giving up scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HTS541010G9SA00 MBZO PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB) My Vaio now spends maybe a minute during bootup futzing around with ata links which aren't there. good dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-sony.txt bad dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-sony-silly.txt config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt -- 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