Long boot delay probing hardware
Jim Dever
jdever at triad.rr.com
Tue Jun 5 23:40:00 UTC 2007
Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> 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)
>
> On reset your hardware isn't reporting a consistent type which is
> confusing the kernel trying to identify what it is.
>
True. This is because support for Onstream (a company now bankrupt)
tape drive was removed from the latest kernel. I'd be happy if I could
just prevent the kernel from trying to identify it. If there is any way
to do that I would be grateful. My system is dual boot and I do use the
drive under Windows from time to time.
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