After updating to 2.6.24-3, the detection slow down at boot time disappeared (I can now boot with usplash :)). Though I still have regular ATA messages in dmesg, like this one:
[ 272.016411] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [ 272.016423] ata5.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 [ 272.016425] cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 272.016426] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeo ut) [ 272.016430] ata5.00: status: { DRDY } [ 277.013160] ata5: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) [ 282.046882] ata5: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset [ 282.046889] ata5: soft resetting link [ 282.594613] ata5.00: configured for MWDMA2 [ 282.594631] ata5: EH complete -- [Hardy] ATA resets 3 times before correctly activating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178653 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs