From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Scary Intel SATA problem: "frozen" Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:03:37 -0500 Message-ID: <456CA429.9020507@garzik.org> References: <20061114150454.GA11900@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:2456 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755510AbWK1VDj (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:03:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ You may or may not have gotten my previous email. The kernel stayed > working, but due to the IO errors the filesystem got re-mounted > read-only, and I'm not sure that the email I sent out in that state > actually ever made it out. I suspect it didn't. ] > > Jeff, > I just had a scary thing on my nice new Intel i965 box (all Intel > chipsets apart from some strange Marvell IDE interface that I'm not using > and that no driver even detected, and a TI firewire thing that I'm > similarly not using). Does jgarzik/libata-dev.git#upstream (don't pull, just test) work for you? Or -mm, which includes #upstream? I'm pretty sure this is already fixed, by the polling IDENTIFY for ata_piix patchset. Jeff