Long boot delay probing hardware

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:34 PM -0500 6/3/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Jim Dever 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'm sure this is due to an ancient OnStream 30GB tape drive installed on
>> that port but I do use it occasionally under Windows.  Is there any way
>> to tell Fedora to ignore the probe for this device so as to avoid the delay?
>>
>I was hoping to find the SCSI equivalent of the noprobe option for
>IDE devices, but I didn't find one. (I may have missed it.) ...
 ...

AFAICT by googling, there just isn't one yet, and it is a known lack.
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