Hi, the following drive Aug 12 12:26:15 black kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 7H500F0 Rev: HA43 Aug 12 12:26:15 black kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 works fine under 2.6.18 and crashes the boot procedure under 2.6.22. Occasionally the boot continues but most of the times the kernel crashes with an error message of a corrupt cpu context. I've added the logs of a succesful boot here. When such a boot succeeds, the system is noticeably slower than under 2.6.18. Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 7H 500F0 HA43 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: bounce limit 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, segment bou ndary 0xFFFFFFFF, hw segs 61 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/40 E mask 0x1 (device error) Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: EH complete Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: res 51/04:00:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/40 E mask 0x1 (device error) Aug 11 10:27:51 black last message repeated 2 times Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: EH complete Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY clear and ID LE, stat=0x440 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/40 E mask 0x4 (timeout) Aug 11 10:27:51 black last message repeated 2 times Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 E mask 0x4 (timeout) Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: soft resetting port Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: EH complete Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY clear and ID LE, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2.00: NCQ disabled due to excessive errors Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/40 E mask 0x4 (timeout) Aug 11 10:27:51 black last message repeated 2 times Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 E mask 0x4 (timeout) Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: soft resetting port Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: EH complete Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY clear and ID LE, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY, stat=0x400 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: res 40/00:00:00:00:00/04:00:00:00:00/40 E mask 0x4 (timeout) Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: soft resetting port Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Aug 11 10:27:51 black kernel: ata2: EH complete - 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