Comment 2 for bug 79542

> This sounds like a user configuration error. The adaptec has a bus
> settle time in its initialisation path. Originally it was 20s, hence
> for a D card (twin channel) it would take about 50s to come online
> (extra 5s to scan per channel). There was a lot of argument about this,
> and the value was finally made configurable as
>
> CONFIG_AIC79XX_RESET_DELAY_MS
>
> I suspect you have this set to around 15000. You can make the boot
> sequence shorter by reducing this value. I believe Red Hat configures
> it down to the default 5000.

Can Ubuntu do it the Red Hat way?