Alan Cox wrote: >>Reloading the pata_pdc2027x module then the problem goes away. >>I guess maybe somehow mdelay() is not as precise as before... > > > It's not the most accurate of things once power management and the like > get invovled. HT doesn't help it either. You should have get much more > accurate timing information if you query gettimeofday before/after and do > a few loops. > Thanks for the advice. Patch to follow. -- albert - 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