Long boot delay probing hardware

[Jim Dever]

Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> ata2: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0)
>>>> ata2: soft resetting port
>>>> ata2.01: failed to IDENTIFY (device reports illegal type, err_mask=0x0)
>>>> ata2.01: revalidation failed (errno=-22)
> 
> On reset your hardware isn't reporting a consistent type which is
> confusing the kernel trying to identify what it is.
> 

True.  This is because support for Onstream (a company now bankrupt)
tape drive was removed from the latest kernel.  I'd be happy if I could
just prevent the kernel from trying to identify it.  If there is any way
to do that I would be grateful.  My system is dual boot and I do use the
drive under Windows from time to time.

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Jim
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