no response .... resetting drive

[Pieter de Jongh]

Hi   I've recently installed RedHat 7.1 (all packages) and everything works fine exept for the following:   When booting I get the message "hdd: no response (status = 0xff), resetting drive".  It's not a huge problem, but just very annoying since it takes a long time to timeout.   My setup: Primary Master: Harddrive Primary Slave: <nothing> Secondary Master : CDROM Secondary Slave: <nothing>   So, hda is recognised as my harddrive, hdb is not referenced at all(like it should be), hdc is recognised as my CDROM and (for some strange reason) it's trying to detect a device on hdd.   Can someone please tell me why this is happening or how I can force it not to check for hdd?   Regards   Pieter.