In message <19980614205409.27736@antioche.lip6.fr>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>Have you tried with and without a CD in the drive (and also with a music CD) ?
>Some drives need a long time after reset when they don't have, or have a
>CD-R in it, and the probe routine times out.

Huh.  I could try that.  I had been booting with a CD-R in the drive, so
I'll see if that makes a difference.  I had been assuming that it would at
least see wdc1, even if it couldn't find any devices on it.

-s