> Nvidia CK804 SATA controllers appear to also explode on reading TF > registers after media errors in certain cases. (They tend to either > lockup the machine or throw HyperTransport timeout machine check You must halt any running DMA activity before reading them. This is true for pretty much all task file style controllers although the results of not doing so vary by device somewhat. -- 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
