ATAng - delay probing for non-existent drive

[Lukas Ertl]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Bryan Liesner wrote:

> The last change to ata-lowlevel (rev 1.11) causes a 10-15 second delay
> probing for a drive that's not there:
>
> ata2: at 0xb400 on atapci0
> ata2: [MPSAFE]
>
>   hangs here for about 15 seconds
>
> ata3: at 0xa800 on atapci0
> ata3: [MPSAFE]

I can confirm this delay, but I haven't yet tried to revert ata-lowlevel.c
to rev. 1.10.

regards,
le

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