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1.1.62 + IDE-2.01: long delay on reboot before "Calibrating delay loop"

1.1.62 + IDE-2.01: long delay on reboot before "Calibrating delay loop"

Post by Jonathan I. Kame » Sat, 12 Nov 1994 00:41:58



My system's configuration is:

        Dell XPS P90 (Pentium 90MHz, PCI bus)
        1Gb EIDE disk drive
        Dell PS/2 two-button mouse
        AGA-1510A SCSI controller
        NEC CDR-510 3X SCSI CD-ROM
        1 3.5" floppy drive
        #9GXE64Pro PCI graphics accelerator
        16Mb RAM
        Linux 1.1.62 with IDE 2.01 patches

My kernel options are: ST506 BLK_DEV_IDE NET SYSVIPC BINFMT_ELF M486 INET
INET_SNARL SCSI BLK_DEV_SR CHR_DEV_SG SCSI_AHA152X NETDEVICES SLIP
SL_COMPRESSED PPP MINIX_FS EXT2_FS MSDOS_FS PROC_FS NFS_FS ISO9660_FS PSMOUSE
SELECTION SCSI_CONSTANTS.

When I boot, the boot process pauses for a significant amount of time
(probably somewhere between thirty seconds and a minute, although I'm not sure
of the exact duration) right after "hda: using LBA mode instead of CHS
addressing", which is right before "Calibrating delay loop".  It doesn't print
anything while it's sitting there.

This didn't happen with the Slackware 2.02 SCSI kernel (which is based on
1.1.54) I was using before.

Can anybody suggest what might be causing this delay?  Can I do anything about
it?

Thanks,

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1.1.62 + IDE-2.01: long delay on reboot before "Calibrating delay loop"

Post by Mark Lo » Sat, 12 Nov 1994 03:14:28


<My system's configuration is:
<
<    Dell XPS P90 (Pentium 90MHz, PCI bus)
..
<When I boot, the boot process pauses for a significant amount of time
<(probably somewhere between thirty seconds and a minute, although I'm not sure
<of the exact duration) right after "hda: using LBA mode instead of CHS
<addressing", which is right before "Calibrating delay loop".  It doesn't print
<anything while it's sitting there.
..
<Can anybody suggest what might be causing this delay?  Can I do anything about
<it?

Probably your PS/2 mouse port.  I'm reworking the irq-probing code to
not have this problem in the next release.  Be patient.  :)
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1. High-Res-Timers: Unexpected "lock" during "Calibrating delay loop "

Hi,
        we are having an unexpected problem with the HR patch( regardless of
the patch you sent which compiled just fine ). The board uses a 486DX cpu,
so there is no support for TSC nor ACPI, the only thing we have is the PIT.

Without highres, the kernel boots properly, with highres enabled, the kernel
passes "time_init()" put it hangs in "calibrate_loop() , ( I though it hung
for real, but it get passed the loop after a while) "

Seems like the tick is VERY SLOW..

The PIT has been tested on this board, and without HR, the kernel boots fine
... if you have any hints, they would be welcome.

The keyboard detection routine timeouts so the system is quiet unuseable and
I can't get the calibration results yet.

Frank

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