Tony Nelson wrote: > 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. Thanks to both of you for responding. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one with a similar problem. I was looking for something like the noprobe option as well but since I'm fairly new to linux (mild dabbling on and off for years)I wasn't sure if I was blind or not. Please yell if you find a solution. Thanks! -- Jim OpenPGP KeyID: 0x006921e Keyserver: ldap://keyserver.pgp.com
