[LAU] HDSP timeout

Dear List, When booting my computer having the HDSP Pcmcia card inserted but no multiface connected, something in the boot process times out and delays the boot for 16seconds, posting "Hammerfall DSP: No Digiface or Multiface connected" (obviously). My question is, is this delay necessary? What is causing this delay and why does the timeout happen after such a long time? Don't get me wrong, everything works as it should, but whenever I boot into my machine I wonder (for about 16seconds) if there is a quicker way of making the computer become aware of the fact that I don't have the multiface connected. This is on a Debian testing, with 2.6.32-trunk-686 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 06:32:16 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux thanks! P