On Tue, 29 May 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Aieee, so the drive doesn't like the new SRST sequence. It would appear that the old code largely ignored the SRST error entirely, no? If we *used* to do (in ata_bus_post_reset()): if (dev0) ata_busy_sleep(ap, ATA_TMOUT_BOOT_QUICK, ATA_TMOUT_BOOT); and you changed that to actually care about the return value: if (dev0) { rc = ata_wait_ready(ap, deadline); if (rc && rc != -ENODEV) return rc; } (in _two_ places). That change also changed the same "post_reset" handling in a totally _different_ way: it used to do ata_busy_sleep() twice, now it still does it twice, but it does it with the same "timeout" value, so if the first one times out, then the second one won't be given any timeout AT ALL! And to make matters worse: the first timeout seems to be for ANOTHER PORT ENTIRELY! So you seem to break port 1 even if the timeout happened on port 0, as far as I can read that sequence. So I think your ata_bus_post_reset() changes are rather suspect. The fact that you don't change the timeout, and use the same deadline for two different ports (and for multiple commands to the same port, afaik), seems rather suspect. The old code also didn't care about failures in certain phases of the reset sequence, and it appears that it did so for good reason. Linus - 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