Mark Lord wrote: > My theory on the problem when I first had it here, was that doing > a FLUSH_CACHE[_EXT] before any PIO command (eg. SMART) should prevent > the problem. This was never explored further (by me or others). > Would using "option libata force=pio4" be a simple way to start to test this hypothesis? Ta, Tim. -- 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