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Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:14:38PM -0800, walt wrote:
>> I'm happy to report that the ata module no longer hangs as I described
>> above.  I'm guessing (just a guess) that this commit fixed it:
>>
>> 2008-01-10  Robert Millan<rmh@aybabtu.com>
>>      * kern/device.c (grub_device_iterate): Do not abort device iteration
>>        when one of the devices cannot be opened.
>
> That's strange.  Can you confirm it?  (by testing the revisions in CVS
> inmediately before and after this commit)

You were right to be suspicious :o(  I have two almost identical machines
on a KVM switch and I was confused about which machine I was using.  When
I'm wide awake that doesn't happen.  Sorry for the false report.