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
>
>   
I have applied the patch,
and am not being spammed with
loads of warnings. However there is
one in there:

[    1.902934] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    1.910604] WARNING: at drivers/ata/libata-sff.c:1017 
ata_sff_hsm_move+0x4de/0x72f()
[    1.912902] Hardware name: MacBookPro2,2
[    1.912902] Modules linked in:
[    1.912902] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.28-07814-gdefbbee #10
[    1.912902] Call Trace:
[    1.912902]  [<c01292ca>] warn_slowpath+0x76/0xad
[    1.912902]  [<c018a64d>] ? check_object+0x139/0x190
[    1.912902]  [<c018aed4>] ? __slab_free+0x280/0x2b8
[    1.912902]  [<c0243883>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x53/0xf8
[    1.912902]  [<c03e22a8>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2d/0x3c
[    1.912902]  [<c02327f0>] ? blk_run_queue+0x2d/0x31
[    1.912902]  [<c02ceca9>] ? scsi_run_queue+0x29d/0x324
[    1.912902]  [<c023ba49>] ? kobject_put+0x37/0x3c
[    1.912902]  [<c02afb67>] ? put_device+0x14/0x16
[    1.912902]  [<c02ee75a>] ? ata_sff_data_xfer32+0x5d/0xa7
[    1.912902]  [<c02ee0ce>] ata_sff_hsm_move+0x4de/0x72f
[    1.912902]  [<c02ee448>] ? ata_sff_interrupt+0x18/0x1f7
[    1.912902]  [<c02ee58b>] ata_sff_interrupt+0x15b/0x1f7
[    1.912902]  [<c015a307>] handle_IRQ_event+0x34/0x69
[    1.912902]  [<c015b47e>] handle_edge_irq+0xc8/0x109
[    1.912902]  [<c0104bc9>] do_IRQ+0x92/0xad
[    1.912902]  [<c010396c>] common_interrupt+0x2c/0x34
[    1.912902]  [<c010835b>] ? mwait_idle+0x55/0x85
[    1.912902]  [<c01023b1>] ? cpu_idle+0x7e/0xa5
[    1.912902]  [<c01023b7>] cpu_idle+0x84/0xa5
[    1.912902]  [<c03d39ef>] rest_init+0x53/0x55
[    1.912902]  [<c055a818>] start_kernel+0x2dc/0x2e1
[    1.912902]  [<c055a085>] __init_begin+0x85/0x8d
[    1.912902] ---[ end trace c6be6dae142eee34 ]---

I guess the best answer for this, is to just
be patient, until things get worked out.
attached is dmesg.

regards;

Justin P. Mattock