From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: After booting a Dell PE2650 into RHEL4 beta 2, dmesg has the following messages: "ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe " System configuration: System : PE2650 BIOS : A20 H/W config : 2* 2.4 Ghz /12GB memory /PERC3Di/PERC4DC/Intel1000MT/2*BCM570X/AIC-39160 Comments (from Amit Bhutani): Looks like this got introduced in the 2.6.9 kernel. This is what the IDE maintainer (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz) had to say about it --> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/0066.html Looks like someone needs to write a patch as Bartlomiej indicated to replace the printks with pr_debugs and submit the patch to kernel.org. This may already be done. Just need to verify. Absolutely need to open a Bugzilla against Red Hat to ensure that patch gets included in RHEL 4 RC. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot up system 2. look at dmesg 3. Actual Results: error message above is in log Expected Results: no errors in log Additional info:
These are debug level messages not errors. They were switched to pr_debug in 2.6.10rc once we were happy with testing the changes.
I just found that out when I tried to reproduce this myself. Thanks!
Verified fixed in 860 build. Thanks. Closing.