On Sun, May 28 2006, Mark Lord wrote: > 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); Sorry for the unresponsiveness, still away and internet connectivity spotty. Just tested the above, and it works for me! I think Marks analisys wrt DRQ is completely correct and this validates it. Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> -- Jens Axboe - : 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