Re: ICH4-M ACPI Error

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

[resending as reply to add linux-ide back, please don't drop cc list]

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Lee Trager wrote:
>> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Lee Trager wrote:
>>>> Hey I've been having this problem for awhile on my laptop(IBM Thinkpad
>>>> T40) and have no been able to figure out how to fix it. It seems that
>>>> when ever I resume my laptop from suspend(from hard drive or RAM) my
>>>> dmesg is filled with this and I am unable to do anything that requires
>>>> access to the hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>>>> hda: task_out_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>>>> hda: task_out_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=74853287,
>>>> sector=74853287
> 
> Ah... it was the IDE driver, sorry.  You can try using Alan Cox's libata 
> pata drivers patch which is included in recent -mm trees.  With the 
> patch, libata ata_piix driver can drive the controller instead of ide 
> and it has better error handling.
> 
> Be warned that the drive will come up as /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda 
> and it currently doesn't disable host protected area unlike IDE, so your 
> disk can be messed up.

-- 
tejun