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.) One
thing you can try is:
scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are
discovered.
async scans them in kernel threads, allowing boot
to proceed.
none ignores them, expecting user space to do the
scan.
But I have not tried it, so let me know if it helps.
Mikkel
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