On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:04:13 -0700 (PDT) osb972ww-linuxczmil@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > HI Tejun, > > setting irqpoll fixed both problems, and there are no "nasty grams" in dmesg now. The original reason I was trying to use the hdparm -u on /dev/sda was because it was hanging for a few seconds when doing writes to the CFdisk, and in the past that was the kind of thing that hdparm -u would generally fix. Now with the irqpoll kernel option, the /dev/sdb SATA drive was found, and I can mount it and write to it. The CFcard /dev/sda is also responding to writes better than before. > > Thanks for the suggestion to use irqpoll. What is the problem within the driver(s) that is requiring irqpoll. ? irqpoll works around BIOS bugs not driver bugs (well generally speaking anyway). 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
