The new hardened-sources-2.6.17-r1 seems to wait for each of my 4 SATA ports to timeout before continuing to load the kernel. The first port has a hard drive on it and that is detected, but the remaining three ports all have to timeout. This also causes the case's hard drive LED to remain on until the system is powered down. libata version 1.20 loaded. ahci 0000:00:16.1: version 1.2 ahci 0000:00:16.1: AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl IDE mode ahci 0000:00:16.1: flags: ncq ilck pm led clo pmp pio slum part ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000000900 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 177 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000000980 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 177 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000000A00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 177 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFFFFC20000000A80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 177 ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123) ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:407f ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 625142448 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : ahci ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0) ata2: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata2: dev 0 failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error) scsi1 : ahci ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0) ata3: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata3: dev 0 failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error) scsi2 : ahci ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0) ata4: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata4: dev 0 failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error) scsi3 : ahci Vendor: ATA Model: ST3320620AS Rev: 3.AA Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
2.6.18 fixes this.
