On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:40:57AM -0400, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> In both cases where I see the pause, there are no slaves on the
> channel. My laptop's cdrom is the sole device on the channel and it is
> a master. The desktop's hard disk is the sole device on the channel and
> it is the master. The former is atapi/secondary channel, the latter is
> ide/primary channel.
> 
> Since the wait is for atapi devices, I shouldn't expect a pause when it
> is probing the hard disk, but there it is when it boots.

the wait is for all *ata* devices (including atapi)

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