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"Søren Schmidt" <sos@DeepCore.dk> wrote:
| Hmm, those hangs are just time spent waiting for drives (that in this
| case are not there, but it can be difficult to tell).

Could we have a tunable timeout, or some means of disabling the device
altogether? My BIOS gives no such option. I've noticed if I put a device on
the parallel interface this controller offers, the timeout problem goes
away, so that is my solution for now.

-- 
Sean Hamilton <sh@bel.bc.ca>