Hello, > Could it be the additional RAID controller (not used). I turned it > off in BIOS as well. Maybe if I turned the other ports on, but then > it would have to probe them. Yes, that's it ! I tried to use : ata2=noprobe in the boot parameters, but that seems to be a no-op... Too bad, 'cos' I know for sure I don't want to connect something on this raid controller, and that would help me gain at least 30s at boot time... Or maybe the syntax is wrong ? Regards, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html