Okay, just to sum things up. The patch below is the current "release candidate" for improving the libata/ata_piix resume functionality in 2.6.17-rc*. It forces libata to wait for up to 2 seconds for BUSY|DRQ to clear on resume before continuing. This is only for 2.6.17 at present. We are waiting on Jens to test and report back for this specific version. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> --- --- linux-2.6.17-rc5/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c +++ linux/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c @@ -4296,6 +4296,7 @@ static int ata_start_drive(struct ata_po */ int ata_device_resume(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_device *dev) { if (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_SUSPENDED) { + ata_busy_wait(ap, ATA_BUSY | ATA_DRQ, 200000); ap->flags &= ~ATA_FLAG_SUSPENDED; ata_set_mode(ap); - : 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