I just tried commit 616e8a091a035c0bd9b871695f4af191df123caa on top of rc5 just in case. This commit fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/13/100, which looks related. And it actually appears to fix our freeze too. Does this speak to you guys ? Brice - To unsubscribe from this list: 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