I tried a 1.6 install CD in the machine with the hard disk, cdrom, and
cdrw drives: the only pause is just after the message "pciide channel 0
wired to interrupt 15" or similar and it lasted less than 5 seconds.
The primary channel does not in fact have any atapi devices on it: only
the hard disk is on the channel and it is set as the master. The
secondary channel is properly configured with master/slave settings
also and experiences no pauses in the probe.

If atapi mandates a 30 second wait for the probe it apparently is not
being applied in this case. Sounds like a bug, not a feature: either
its not being applied when it should or there shouldn't be a pause at all.

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