On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 14:15 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > which persists on Sil 311x on rare motherboards. The rest are either > > addressed with the improved error handling, or are ATAPI + VIA AFAICS. > ATAPI + VIA to that pattern is also showing up on pata_via cases as > well, but only on via so far. Its as if there is a case where the IRQ of > the first command is lost sometimes. I investigated further the problem. For my pata case the interrupt go through idle_irq in ata_host_intr. If I put a printk before ata_host_intr in ata_interrupt there no problem. I bet "altstatus" or "main status" return ATA_BUSY and are not cleared enough fast by the hardware. I will try others tests this evening. Matthieu - : 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