O> I don't see the connection between (no-)smp and ata. Something with > interrupt routing/IPI, missing irq ack? Booting another !SMP kernel > works fine. The problem also exists in 2.6.24-rc2. Almost certainly interrupt routing try smp but with noapic and see if it fails as well ? - 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
