> > Indeed... but the thing is we don't know what's asserted in this case > > -- remember, it's reading the status register that locks everything up... > > Exactly. And IORDY shouldn't really apply there, > unless some nitwit standards person wrote it into a spec.. Could it be we need to reset the state machine at this point before we touch the registers again - that wouldn't be the first controller with this limit and undocumented. On the 370 we already Linas; For the debug on the libata one turn on ATA_DEBUG and ATA_VERBOSE_DEBUG in include/linux/libata.h and it should spew diagnostics before the freeze. I suspect thats a different problem to the hang you see now but I'd like to debug both. 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
