Hi, We are facing random kernel panics on drive removal when IO is happening to RAID. Note that kernel panic is random and not every time it happens. This is mips based production system and kernel is 2.6.18. Unfortunately we can't upgrade the kernel as its on field. Here is the log that we have got, Data bus error, epc == 80377358, ra == 80377384 Oops[#1]: Cpu 0 $ 0 : 00000000 804d0024 c001e0c7 0001000b $ 4 : 811a829c 811a8d5c 00000260 804d358c $ 8 : 90008000 1000001f 00000000 852c4000 $12 : 87a2bb80 00006764 00000000 00000000 $16 : 811a8d5c 811a829c 811a829c 00000001 $20 : 80513d98 00000000 00000000 00000000 $24 : 00000000 2b0c2ba0 $28 : 80512000 80513be0 00000000 80377384 Hi : 00000000 Lo : 00000000 epc : 80377358 ata_check_status_mmio+0x4/0x10 Not tainted ra : 80377384 ata_check_status+0x20/0x3c Status: 90008003 KERNEL EXL IE Cause : 0000201c PrId : 000034c1 Modules linked in: aes Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=80512000, task=80514fc8) Stack : 00000000 803ff4bc 00000000 00000000 80377240 80364204 8703c6a8 805bccc8 8011d1a8 80434840 811a829c 811a8ccc 8037731c 871bf660 00000001 805bccc8 8703c6a8 00000000 8037068c 8538db80 805345d8 80513cd8 00000001 805ce368 811a8348 00000001 80378e54 00000001 82560238 82560238 8011dfd8 00000001 00010000 811a829c 811a829c c001e000 80378f60 871bf660 871bf660 00000000 ... Call Trace: [<80377358>] ata_check_status_mmio+0x4/0x10 [<80377384>] ata_check_status+0x20/0x3c [<80377240>] ata_tf_read_mmio+0x1c/0xd8 [<8037731c>] ata_tf_read+0x20/0x3c [<8037068c>] ata_qc_complete+0xb4/0x128 [<80378e54>] ata_port_abort+0xc4/0x100 [<80378f60>] ata_port_freeze+0x54/0x78 [<8037b7b8>] sil_host_intr+0x208/0x220 [<8037b8a4>] sil_interrupt+0xd4/0x108 [<80145b58>] handle_IRQ_event+0x60/0xc8 [<80145c78>] __do_IRQ+0xb8/0x140 [<80104624>] do_IRQ+0x1c/0x34 [<80100ef8>] pmc_sequoia_pci_isr+0x3c/0x98 [<80100fc8>] do_extended_irq+0x74/0x80 [<80101070>] plat_irq_dispatch+0x9c/0xac [<80102eb0>] ret_from_irq+0x0/0x10 Code: 03e00008 304200ff 8c820054 <90420000> 03e00008 304200ff 27bdffe8 afbf0010 8c82000c Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt The problem is we don't see this exception every time the drive is pulled out.First level look at log indicates that the bus address is not right because of which the exception occurs. Has anyone observed similar issues before? Thanks Sagar -- 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