Subject: Re: long boot delay when probing CD drive
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 08/06/2007 21:53:02
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:36:50PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad T42.  If I boot with a battery or nothing in the
> Ultrabay, everything is fine.  If, however, I have a CD drive in it,
> there's a 34-40 second pause after it recognizes wd0 before it finds
> atapibus0 and cd0.  Is that normal?

That might be the ATA 30 second timeout for the secondary device.

	David

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