diff --git a/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.c b/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.c
index b940dac6caa..eed24c9eef6 100644
--- a/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.c
+++ b/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Id: ide.c,v 1.37 2001/01/06 23:25:35 rex Exp $
+/* $Id: ide.c,v 1.38 2001/03/04 00:46:46 ekohl Exp $
  *
  *  IDE.C - IDE Disk driver 
  *     written by Rex Jolliff
@@ -1491,7 +1491,7 @@ IDEStartController(IN OUT PVOID Context)
   /*  wait for BUSY to clear and DRDY to assert */
   for (Retries = 0; Retries < IDE_MAX_BUSY_RETRIES; Retries++)
     {
-      BYTE  Status = IDEReadStatus(ControllerExtension->CommandPortBase);
+      Status = IDEReadStatus(ControllerExtension->CommandPortBase);
       if (!(Status & IDE_SR_BUSY) && (Status & IDE_SR_DRDY)) 
         {
           break;
diff --git a/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.h b/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.h
index eb348644ca1..0296aed611c 100644
--- a/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.h
+++ b/reactos/drivers/dd/ide/ide.h
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #define  IDE_MAX_RESET_RETRIES     10000
 #define  IDE_MAX_POLL_RETRIES      100000
 #define  IDE_MAX_WRITE_RETRIES     1000
-#define  IDE_MAX_BUSY_RETRIES      100
-//#define  IDE_MAX_BUSY_RETRIES       100000
+#define  IDE_MAX_BUSY_RETRIES      50000
 #define  IDE_MAX_DRQ_RETRIES       10000
 //#define  IDE_MAX_CMD_RETRIES       1
 #define  IDE_MAX_CMD_RETRIES       0