Comment 113 for bug 285892

Description of problem:
Boot pauses for a while, after which the following error is shown:
[ 71.776103] ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE

From dmesg:
[code]
[ 71.776063] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 71.776103] ata2.00: failed command: IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
[ 71.776132] ata2.00: cmd a1/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 pio 512 in
[ 71.776133] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 71.776201] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 71.776222] ata2: hard resetting link
[ 72.236064] ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 73.038369] ata2.00: configured for PIO4
[ 73.838986] ata2: EH complete
[/code]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ uname -a
Linux rickPC 2.6.38-0.rc8.git0.1.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 08:22:15 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ udevd --version
166

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot
2. dmesg

Actual results:
Boot pauses for a while, with error

Expected results:
Boot continues normally

Additional info:
At the archlinux forums they have a topic about this (and a workaround).
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=894147