Increase speed of sector reads from SystemACE,
  shorten poll timeout and remove a useless reset

* Patch by Tolunay Orkun, 19 Mar 2004:
  Make GigE PHY 1000Mbps Speed/Duplex detection conditional
  (CONFIG_PHY_GIGE)

* Patch by Brad Kemp, 18 Mar 2004:
  prevent machine checks during a PCI scan

* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 18 Mar 2004:
  Fix string cleaning in IDE identification