Long boot delay probing hardware

Jim Dever jdever at triad.rr.com
Tue Jun 5 03:15:07 UTC 2007


Frank Cox wrote:
> 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
> 

Could be but I doubt it.  I think my problem relates to the removal of
Onstream Tape support from the kernel.  I still have an old Onstream
DI-30 installed.  I don't care to use it under linux so it's fine if
it's not recognized but I wish there was a parameter I could use to
avoid probing of the device and the corresponding delay.  Removing the
device isn't an option as I still use it occasionally under Windows.

Thanks for looking though!

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