30s delay for ata during boot

[Dan Langille]

I have a Compaq Presario 1620 laptop which always has a long delay 
when booting.  The delay occurs after this line is displayed during a 
"boot -v":  

  ata1-master: ATAPI 14 eb

See http://www.freebsddiary.org/tmp/dmesg.boot.txt for the full dmesg
output.

Any idea as to why this would occur?
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/