On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:06:12 +0200 David Müller <dave.mueller@xxxxxx> wrote: > The "pata_oldpiix" driver in linux-2.6.26 is calling its "set_dmamode" > routine also locally, but under different preconditions as the > corresponding call in libata-core.c. This may cause an "out-of-array > bounds" access in "oldpiix_set_dmamode". This looks wrong adev->dma_mode should never be invalid at this point. Are you not confusing dma_mask and dma_mode. Can you provide the backtraces of the failing case and the actual chip variant you are using ? Either way the fix is not in oldpiix if this is appearing as 0xFF but in the core code so NAK -- 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