Comment 9 for bug 28357

udev (079-0ubuntu20) dapper; urgency=low
   * Load ide-generic in all cases after loading PCI storage controller
     drivers. This reduces the complexity of the root filesystem mounting
     to just a single path for both IDE and everything else and opens up to
     using a UUID for everything.
   * Set a global usplash timeout for the entire initramfs script.
     Ubuntu: #35104.

I am glad to report that this recent udev upload today, fixes my problem !
I can now at last see usplash at boot, despite my slow to initialize SCSI card ! And even at shut-down as well now, sweet ! :o)

Bug closed :-)