> > For normal users this brings us, I believe, to feature parity with old IDE > > (and of course more featured in some areas too). > > This is broken horribly on nvidia chipsets.. Your Nvidia driver is out of date. > HARDWARE ERROR > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 4: b200000000070f0f > TSC 5d45fa1400 > This is not a software problem! > Run through mcelog --ascii to decode and contact your hardware vendor > Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine check > BUG: warning at kernel/panic.c:137/panic() (Tainted: G M ) If you send certain commands via ADMA the chip takes the entire machine out. The current Nvidia driver has this cured (and you want it as otherwise you can blow up the machine via SG_IO) 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