On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:25:21 +0000 Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Last weekend I upgraded my old Thinkpad from Fedora Core 2 to F9 > (a 2.6.9 kernel to a 2.6.25 kernel). The old 2.6.9 kernel was > using the IDE drivers, and there have been no issues with IDE on > this hardware until this upgrade. Can you double the timeouts for block I/O commands. The libata core uses 30 second timeouts for a lot of stuff and some PATA drives really do want 60. Other than that there really isn't any difference in the settings the two drivers use as they are all written up exactly in the Intel docs. -- 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