Long boot delay probing hardware

[Jim Dever]

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?

-- 
Jim
OpenPGP KeyID:  0x006921e
Keyserver:  ldap://keyserver.pgp.com