The system uses sata_sil with 00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 437A Serial ATA Controller 00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI 4379 Serial ATA Controller I added some printks and it fails here: static void sil_host_intr(struct ata_port *ap, u32 bmdma2) { struct ata_queued_cmd *qc = ata_qc_from_tag(ap, ap->active_tag); u8 status; if (unlikely(bmdma2 & SIL_DMA_SATA_IRQ)) { u32 serror; ... <------ hits two times, goto freeze; Appended a successfull boot from 2.6.16. libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_sil 0000:00:11.0: version 0.9 GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC9 and IRQ 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xFFFFC20000012080 ctl 0xFFFFC2000001208A bmdma 0xFFFFC20000012000 irq 201 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xFFFFC200000120C0 ctl 0xFFFFC200000120CA bmdma 0xFFFFC20000012008 irq 201 ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi0 : sata_sil ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata2: dev 0 cfg 00:0040 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:40ff 93:0000 ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 488397168 sectors: LBA48 sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x110000, handle=0x0000000000000000 ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 sata_get_dev_handle: SATA dev addr=0x110000, handle=0x0000000000000000 scsi1 : sata_sil Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG SP2504C Rev: VT10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xFFFFC20000014080 ctl 0xFFFFC2000001408A bmdma 0xFFFFC20000014000 irq 177 ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xFFFFC200000140C0 ctl 0xFFFFC200000140CA bmdma 0xFFFFC20000014008 irq 177 ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi2 : sata_sil ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0) scsi3 : sata_sil Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda -Andi - : 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