Comment 5 for bug 178653

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