2010/1/27 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > It could even be a Linux side bug or some kind of complicated Linux > timing thing. That *has* happened before with the older IDE stack, so we > need to be cautious, collect reports and try to see patterns before > jumping to conclusions - unless the vendor advises us otherwise. Good, I'm hoping you folks have better clout in soliciting responses from users and vendors. In the mean time that I'm going to take a couple of days to find the time to test on a different machine, here is a month-old output of "dmesg | grep ata1" if it helps any: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/347122/ I'm running Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 alphas at the moment and note that even if I "successfully reproduce" the problem on my alternate hardware, its still the same particular disk which can't disprove that it's simply a single defective piece - the only thing stuck in my mind is Win7rc working fine so far while various other Linux distros have exhibited the same problem. -- 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