Long boot delay probing hardware

[Frank Cox]

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:25:39 -0400
Jim Dever <jdever at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> After updating my FC6 to Fedora 7 I'm getting this at boot time after
> (obviously) an 30 second pause:
> 
> ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
> ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
> ata2: soft resetting port
> ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (device reports illegal type, err_mask=0x0)
> ata2.01: revalidation failed (errno=-22)
> ata2.01: disabled
> ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs

I wonder if your issue is also related to this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242111

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