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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:12:36 +0100
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Hi,

On Saturday 23 February 2008, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> 
> aeriksson@fastmail.fm said:
> >> But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and
> >> it really is worth moving things over if you can. 
> >
> > Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things... 
> 
> Having switched to ata_piix i can confirm that smartd doesn't hand the system 
> anymore.
> 
> Still.. There seem to be a bug vs. the old drivers somewhere. Will that be 
> addressed, or should there be a big warning for the old stuff (DEPRECATED?)

Could you try bisecting it down to the guilty commit using git-bisect?

[ the "old" stuff got few hundred commits in 2.6.25 ]

Thanks,
Bart