I tried Linux 2.6.22-rc6 on my machine with an Asus A8N-SlI Deluxe motherboard (NForce 4 chipset). When booting, the system hangs for a long time, but it continues after a long wait. I found these kind of errors in the logs afterwards: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:00:01:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata2: soft resetting port ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs ata2: hard resetting port ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 390721968, hpa_sectors = 390721968 ata2.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 390721968, hpa_sectors = 390721968 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in res 50/00:00:af:f1:49/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x202 (HSM violation) ata2: soft resetting port ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xffffc2000001a59c ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) [...] With Linux 2.6.21 this did not happen. config, dmesg and lspci can be found here: http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/kernelbug/ -- Frederik Himpe - 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