Andrew Lyon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My system is gigabyte ds3 motherboard with onboard SATA JMicron
> 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02), drive connected is WDC
> WD740ADFD-00 20.0, I am running 2.6.18.6 32 bit, under heavy i/o I get
> the following messaegs:
> 
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0)
> 
> Is this condition dangerous?

Not usually.  Might indicate something is going wrong in some really
rare cases.  I think vendors are getting NCQ right these days.  Maybe
it's time to remove that printk.

> I plan to upgrade to 2.6.19 soon as I have problems with a sata dvd
> writer but I have to wait for a driver that I need to catch up, this
> system cannot be down for long as it runs mythtv.

Can you apply the attached patch and report what the kernel says?
Please include full dmesg.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun