On Sun, Dec 03, Olaf Hering wrote: > [ 194.947620] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > [ 194.947628] ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x41) > [ 194.947693] ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xa0 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) > [ 194.947714] ata1: soft resetting port > [ 195.448133] ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2 > [ 195.448157] ata1: EH complete > [ 200.450116] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > [ 200.450124] ata1.00: (BMDMA stat 0x41) > [ 200.450132] ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xa0 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) > [ 200.450153] ata1: soft resetting port > [ 200.945670] ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2 > [ 200.945695] ata1: EH complete This change seems to fix it, only a single reset occurs. I think that one is normal when a CD is in the drive during bootup, maybe it leaves the drive in a confused state. @@ -167,9 +175,13 @@ static void sl82c105_reset_engine(struct struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(ap->host->dev); u16 val; + udelay(42); pci_read_config_word(pdev, 0x7E, &val); + udelay(10); pci_write_config_word(pdev, 0x7E, val | 4); + udelay(10); pci_write_config_word(pdev, 0x7E, val & ~4); + udelay(42); } /** - 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