Alan Cox wrote:
>> If I had to guess, I would say that Arjan's patches assume it is OK to 
>> treat two ports on a single IDE controller as completely independent, 
>> when that is not really the reality of the hardware.
>>     
>
> The PCI probe paths and the setup paths of several of the PATA
> controller drivers know they are single threaded in a few spots so it
> wouldn't suprise me in the slightest. Really this async stuff needs to
> spend 2 or 3 months in -next getting the kinks worked out so that driver
> assumptions can be pinned down and fixed, and someone can give it an API
> with names that anyone but Arjan understands ;)
>
> Alan
>
>   
Tejun;
attached is lspci -nnn,
and dmesg.
I'll go ahead and plug that patch in
to see,

regards;

Justin P. Mattock