Intel S3000AH stall on boot

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Antony Mawer wrote:
> Another "me too". We saw this and wound up removing the floppy drive
> from the systems in order to avoid this lengthy delay on boot - we
> weren't using them anyway and it saved a whole $5 or so on the
> hardware costs... ;-)
>
> I seem to recall it was not purely a 6.x thing - as I'm sure that we
> have plenty of 6.x machines with FDDs that don't exhibit this hang -
> but it was only newer Intel motherboards (I think 9xx series onwards)
> that we were seeing the issue on...

I'll try disabling it in device.hints and see how it goes.

I don't really want to remove the FDD because it is needed in the event 
we need to reinstall to load the aacu driver from Adaptec :-/

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