-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tejun Heo schrieb: > Please post the result of 'lspci -n' What i forgot to mention: after the error no data can be written or read to disk anymore (only solution is a hard reset). This applies AFAICS to 2.6.17-rc1 (testet a few minutes ago) with a slightly different error message, too: ata1: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 Output of lspci -n : 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1002:5a31 (rev 01) 0000:00:01.0 0604: 1002:5a3f 0000:00:12.0 0101: 1002:4379 (rev 80) 0000:00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4374 (rev 80) 0000:00:13.1 0c03: 1002:4375 (rev 80) 0000:00:13.2 0c03: 1002:4373 (rev 80) 0000:00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4372 (rev 81) 0000:00:14.1 0101: 1002:4376 (rev 80) 0000:00:14.2 0403: 1002:437b (rev 01) 0000:00:14.3 0601: 1002:4377 (rev 80) 0000:00:14.4 0604: 1002:4371 (rev 80) 0000:01:05.0 0300: 1002:5a62 0000:02:04.0 0200: 168c:001a (rev 01) 0000:02:06.0 0607: 1524:1410 (rev 01) 0000:02:07.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10) 0000:02:0a.0 0c00: 104c:8026 The system is a Toshiba Satellite A100-512 Regards, Martin Ammermüller -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEPpDeituPSWPX2AIRAhwmAJoDQi921osUsFS4KRzsvwrkfYyhZACfdoV4 8yW3giN4VUhOiftgdQ+GU84= =g4zF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html