Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:50:03AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote: > (1) stock SUSE HEAD/11.2 (2.6.37) - works fine with no problem > (2) SUSE 2.6.37 with the 'magic patch' commented out - shows the problem > (3) stock updated SUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.14) - shows the problem > (4) stock SUSE 11.2 with the 'magic patch' added (2.6.31.5) - works fine > with no problem > > I think that's fairly indicative that the 'magic patch' is able to cure > my problem with a VT 6241A controller and a Samsung HD103SJ drive. I see, so the via issue was the same FIFO configuration problem. > One thing I still need to investigate is why Ubuntu 10.04 was showing > the problem, but perhaps I never got as far as updating the kernel after > installing it. (AFAIK as installed it is 2.6.31, whilst the current > update is 2.6.32-28 which I think should have the patch) Most likely. So, that leaves the problem sil was seeing. Are you interested in digging that down too? Thank you. -- tejun -- 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