Re: ICH4-M ACPI Error

[Lee Trager <Lee@PicturesInMotion.net>]

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
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>>>>>>>> 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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> I filed a bug about this a few weeks ago and no kernel developer has said anything but it seems that people with other chipsets have a similar problem. You can look at the bug here. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6840
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