On Gwe, 2006-05-12 at 00:45 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > a spurious interrupt or HSM violation. But, it sounds like it could > result in screaming IRQ for controllers without IRQ pending bit. Could > it? If so, maybe unconditional irq clearing in ata_interrupt() should > be resurrected to handle such conditions. Not sure how the sil24 handles it but the PATA chips seem (its not well documented) to drop any pending interrupt once it is masked, thus you would take the interrupt once (or maybe 2 or 3 times in weird obscure corner cases on a pentium II SMP box) and then no more. Alan - : 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