On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:25:18 -0500 Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> wrote: > Mmmm.. Tejun, here's a clue for what Linus saw on his system: > > Right now I'm implementing support for READ/WRITE LONG commands via libata. > > And the ata_piix driver gets into a non-recoverable state after successfully > doing a READ LONG command for me, a very similar state to what Linus reported. Looks like it may in fact be a chip erratum. Turn off PPE unconditionally and try and repeat it (if you look at ata_piix right now its turned off for ATAPI only). Alan - 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