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. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
