Article ID: 328624 - Last Review: November 1, 2006 - Revision: 2.1

Delay May Occur on the ATAPI Bus When You Change ATAPI Devices

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SUMMARY

When you add or remove ATAPI devices (such as an IDE hard disk or an IDE CD-ROM drive), multiple hard bus resets may occur on the channel on which the device change occurs.

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The hard bus resets are initiated by the Atapi.sys driver when a physical device change occurs. To redetect some devices that do not properly report the ATA Identify Data information, Windows issues a hard reset with from 10 to 20 recurring iterations before the device is identified correctly. This behavior may cause a noticeable delay during the redetection process.
APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
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