[ale] hdd detection

[kaboom at oobleck.net (Chris Ricker)]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I have a device that has only one IDE port.  Not 2.  Linux keeps trying
> to detect the drives at hdc and hdd.  This slows down boot.
> 
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> hda: PQI IDE DiskOnModule, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
> hdc: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
> hdc: no response (status = 0x0a)
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
> hdd: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfef8)
> hdd: no response (status = 0x0a)
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: attached ide-disk driver.
> hda: 64000 sectors (33 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=31/32/63
> 
> 
> Is there a way to tell the kernel that hdc and hdd or ide1 does not
> exist?

add

hdc=none hdd=none

to your kernel entry in grub.conf 

later,
chris