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Bug 80946

Summary: Opening a non-existent /dev/hda takes too long to time out
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ben LaHaise <bcrl>
Component: kernelAssignee: Alan Cox <alan>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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dmesg output from booting 2.4.20-2.2smp none

Description Ben LaHaise 2003-01-02 18:29:51 UTC
On a system with SCSI disks and the primary ide controller disabled in the BIOS,
the ide driver takes far too long to time out an open operation on /dev/hda. 
This results in lilo taking forever to run.

[root@localhost etc]# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=1k                   
dd: opening `/dev/hda': No such device or address                              
                                                                               
real    0m14.828s                                                              
user    0m14.780s                                                              
sys     0m0.030s                                                               
[root@localhost etc]# 

dmesg of boot to follow.

Comment 1 Ben LaHaise 2003-01-02 18:49:18 UTC
Created attachment 89062 [details]
dmesg output from booting 2.4.20-2.2smp

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2003-01-02 19:10:42 UTC
During this operation is modprobe/insmod running somewhere ?