diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
index 2cccfe9d39f44ab8da559b92f2e3d9725482c8a7..e7067c20e338fce91f548dd1e829ab25ca446119 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
@@ -881,13 +881,6 @@ static int ide_init_queue(ide_drive_t *drive)
 	q->queuedata = drive;
 	blk_queue_segment_boundary(q, 0xffff);
 
-	if (!hwif->rqsize) {
-		if ((hwif->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_NO_LBA48) ||
-		    (hwif->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_NO_LBA48_DMA))
-			hwif->rqsize = 256;
-		else
-			hwif->rqsize = 65536;
-	}
 	if (hwif->rqsize < max_sectors)
 		max_sectors = hwif->rqsize;
 	blk_queue_max_sectors(q, max_sectors);
@@ -1019,6 +1012,14 @@ static int init_irq (ide_hwif_t *hwif)
 	       		goto out_unlink;
 	}
 
+	if (!hwif->rqsize) {
+		if ((hwif->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_NO_LBA48) ||
+		    (hwif->host_flags & IDE_HFLAG_NO_LBA48_DMA))
+			hwif->rqsize = 256;
+		else
+			hwif->rqsize = 65536;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * For any present drive:
 	 * - allocate the block device queue