if (status & ATA_BUSY)
                ata_port_printk(ap, KERN_WARNING,
-                               "port is slow to respond, please be patient\n");
+                               "port is slow to respond, please be patient "
+                               "(Status 0x%x)\n", status);
 
        timeout = timer_start + tmout;
        while ((status & ATA_BUSY) && (time_before(jiffies, timeout))) {
 
        if (status & ATA_BUSY) {
                ata_port_printk(ap, KERN_ERR, "port failed to respond "
-                               "(%lu secs)\n", tmout / HZ);
+                               "(%lu secs, Status 0x%x)\n",
+                               tmout / HZ, status);
                return 1;
        }