On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:15:31PM -0400, Bryan Althouse wrote: > I've done more testing with your patch. When I use it with my non-SMP > kernel, disk access will cause a panic with a cache error message. Is this > patch only intended for SMP, or is this a legitimate problem? There is a real problem but it only hits on SMP. (The implementation is a hack though, it makes assumptions about the IDE code's internal workings) Ralf