On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:19:47 +0200 Jeroen Beerstra <jeroen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. There are lots of similar reports. I don't know what broke the APIC code but it doesn't appear any of these are libata bugs. 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