Bug 80946 - Opening a non-existent /dev/hda takes too long to time out
Summary: Opening a non-existent /dev/hda takes too long to time out
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alan Cox
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-02 18:29 UTC by Ben LaHaise
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:49 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-06-05 13:41:34 UTC
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dmesg output from booting 2.4.20-2.2smp (9.69 KB, text/plain)
2003-01-02 18:49 UTC, Ben LaHaise
no flags Details

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 ?



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