From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: What do these SATA errors mean / kernel 2.6.25.6 (DRDY ERR/ICRC
 ABRT)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:50:31 -0400
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Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Never had a single error so far, powered down my host, powered it back up,
> and now with kernel 2.6.25.6:

http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages

In particular, timeouts may be solved by acpi=off or 'noapic' or
pci=nomsi or pci=biosirq.


> Does/the kernel handle the ATA v8 protocol properly?
> ATA Version is:   8

Yes.  ATA is always back-compatible.

	Jeff