On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 21:53:02 +0100
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 01:36:50PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I have a Thinkpad T42.  If I boot with a battery or nothing in the
> > Ultrabay, everything is fine.  If, however, I have a CD drive in it,
> > there's a 34-40 second pause after it recognizes wd0 before it finds
> > atapibus0 and cd0.  Is that normal?
> 
> That might be the ATA 30 second timeout for the secondary device.
> 
On the second channel?  Possibly, though there's a long delay before it
prints the atapibus0 or cd0 lines, not after.  And there's no delay
looking for the second drive on the first channel.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb