Re: ICH4-M ACPI Error

[Lee Trager <Lee@PicturesInMotion.net>]

Lee Trager wrote:
> Lee Trager wrote:
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>> Tejun Heo wrote:
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>>> [resending as reply to add linux-ide back, please don't drop cc list]
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>>> Tejun Heo wrote:
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>>>> Lee Trager wrote:
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>>>>> Tejun Heo wrote:
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>>>>>> Lee Trager wrote:
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>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>>> 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
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>> Isn't libata for SATA drivers? My drive is an IDE. Also I'm worried
>> about using something that could mess up my drive when this is going to
>> be used for school next month and I need something that can sleep as
>> well as reliable.
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> I read about it a little more and it seems that my controller is
> supported and its maturity is listed as "No known major issues. New
> issues tend to get fixed quickly." So does this mean they fixed the
> issue you were talking about? I guess Ill test it tomarrow(its kina
> late) and report back.
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> I tried the mm sources and as soon as I boot into it I get "atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly" It seems that they dont have a patch for just libata for any recent kerenls(the latest patch ive found is 2.6.17-rc4-git2). I could try that but id rather but on a recent, and for normal use, stable kernel. 
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