Intermittent hang at bootup

There is a very old bug, the PC hanging at bootup. Puppy Forum member ETP reported it. I looked at the code where the hang occurs. It only happens occasionally, well rarely, for me, so I have ignored it. But, ETP is getting it more frequently. It seems to be hardware related, and I have implemented what is probably a fix.

My response to ETP is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=959974#959974

hdparm man page:
https://linux.die.net/man/8/hdparm

I see that woof-CE still has that line with "hdparm" (line 761), so maybe they should consider removing it also:
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/blob/testing/woof-code/rootfs-skeleton/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

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Comments

We have also sometimes been getting a pause at that point in the bootup (where it outputs "Recognising media devices... optical").
Only on some hardware.

Again, it is likely to be due to that execution of "hdparm".

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