Hello Tejun, Op Friday 18 July 2008 07:00:42 schreef u: > Hello, Jeroen. > > [cc'ing linux-ide] > > Hmmm... the problem could be caused by hald polling for media presence. > Does "hal-disable-polling /dev/srX" make any difference? > hal-disable-polling setting is persistent so if your drive goes bonkers > quickly after boot, you can disable polling, reboot and see whether > anything is different. Also, please post the result of "lspci -nn" and > "hdparm -I /dev/srX" && please try 2.6.26. > > Thanks. I'm pretty sure about that since the hald process I'm refering to points to the 'faulty' drive. However simply booting with noapic seems to fix all of my problems. See: Bug 451081 @ bugzilla.redhat.com Bug 11044 @ bugzilla.kernel.org regards, Jeroen Beerstra -- 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