Re: 2.6.28: Is there a way to disable sata probing for certainports?

[Justin Piszcz]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Grant Grundler wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When I boot from an Intel X25-E SSD, it takes roughly a few seconds;
> > however, items such as:
> >
> > $ dmesg|grep link\ down
> > [    2.447030] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
> > [    4.481288] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
> > [    6.501288] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
> > [    8.522038] ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
> > [   10.552288] ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)
> >
> > Scanning for devices on channels that have nothing connected adds to the
> > boot time, is there anyway to turn off/disable scanning for certain ports to
> > help speed the boot process?
>
> Some BIOSs allow one to enable/disable each port individually.
> Have you checked the BIOS config menus for such an option?
>
> drivers/ata/libata-core.c declares "ata_force_param_buf" but I don't
> see any documentation for it despite the reference to
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt .
>
> hth,
> grant
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Disabling the additional controllers helped a bit but for AHCI on a few 
boards its all or nothing, AHCI enabled/disabled.

Justin.
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