From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020424 Description of problem: OPENING THIS PER QA AS ADVANCED SERVER VERSION OF RH7.3 BUGZILLA 68883....required to be fixed by an AS customer. Suggested fix attached to 68883; See 68883 for details..... sd_init_onedisk() waits approximately 100 seconds for each clariion passive-mode device to spin up when the device's driver is loading. Since these passive-mode devices are non-responsive to the START_STOP SCSI message used to spin up non-removable media, the delay is unnecessary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): AS 2.1 kernel How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.SEE 68883... 2. 3. Additional info: See Bugzilla 68883 for details and suggested fix.
removing myself from the cc list
Our goal is to include the fix top this problem(back port of the patch referenced in 68883) in the next scheduled AS2.1 errata kernel. (date: unknown) Larry Woodman
This fix has been checked in to the AS source tree. It is expected to ship in an errata as soon as feasible.
Fixed in 2.4.9-e.9. Closing.