> Has anyone else reported a problem like this? It requires > non-coherent DMA, and a lack of a cache invalidate instruction, and > one of the drivers that has this problem (it looks like sata_qstor > does too, I haven't looked at others), so maybe that doesn't cover > any other architectures. Nobody has, not even PA-RISC which is normally guaranteed to make life miserable in the caching area but I agree entirely with your diagnosis and that buffer should indeed be marked cache aligned > I can provide a patch if you're interested. Please do. 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