Hi, My system is gigabyte ds3 motherboard with onboard SATA JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02), drive connected is WDC WD740ADFD-00 20.0, I am running 2.6.18.6 32 bit, under heavy i/o I get the following messaegs: ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) Is this condition dangerous? I plan to upgrade to 2.6.19 soon as I have problems with a sata dvd writer but I have to wait for a driver that I need to catch up, this system cannot be down for long as it runs mythtv. Andy - 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