On Thursday 20 May 2004 00:58, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20040519192738.GB1820@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
> >How long do you wait ?
> >Per the specs, a reset can take up to 31s.
>
> That was the answer.  I fiddled with my code a bit to allow for a
> longer wait; the drive is now recognized.  I'm going to play with
> things a bit more and then send in a PR with the fix.

This "fix" is simply not going to be acceptable as a general-purpose thing.  
Not only will it cause us to potentially wait 31 seconds when no drive is 
present again, but it will also reintroduce the problem of busy-waiting a 
long time when a card is inserted.  It has to be done better.