I honestly can't find any fault in the hardware, and no logical explanation for the software deciding to do this. Anyways, I'll ask the IDE guys. If some kind soul could inform me of the location of the latest version of their #upstream patch, I´d be mighty grateful. I didn't see any mention of it in the mailinglist archives for this month.
I suspect your looking in the wrong archives. Quoting a 3-week old post from the linux-ide list: The 'upstream' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git contains the following updates (queued for 2.6.18): drivers/ide/pci/amd74xx.c | 7 drivers/scsi/Makefile | 2 drivers/scsi/ahci.c | 436 +++--- drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c | 25 drivers/scsi/libata-bmdma.c | 143 ++ drivers/scsi/libata-core.c | 2525 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- drivers/scsi/libata-eh.c | 1561 +++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c | 408 +++--- drivers/scsi/libata.h | 24 drivers/scsi/pdc_adma.c | 10 drivers/scsi/sata_mv.c | 70 - drivers/scsi/sata_nv.c | 13 drivers/scsi/sata_promise.c | 39 drivers/scsi/sata_qstor.c | 14 drivers/scsi/sata_sil.c | 66 drivers/scsi/sata_sil24.c | 615 +++++---- drivers/scsi/sata_sis.c | 3 drivers/scsi/sata_svw.c | 5 -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
