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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] 2.6.x libata update
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Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:43, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> 
>><jgarzik@redhat.com> (04/02/13 1.1634)
>>   [libata] catch, and ack, spurious DMA interrupts
>>   
>>   Hardware issue on Intel ICH5 requires an additional ack sequence
>>   over and above the normal IDE DMA interrupt ack requirements.  Issue
>>   described in post to freebsd list:
>>   http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-stable@freebsd.org/msg58421.html
>>   
>>   Since the bug workaround only requires a single additional PIO or
>>   MMIO read in the interrupt handler, it is applied to all chipsets
>>   using the standard libata interrupt handler.
>>   
>>   Credit for research the issue, creating the patch, and testing the
>>   patch all go to Jon Burgess.
>>
> 
> 
> Did you miss the mail I sent about this locking my box in under
> 20-30 mins?  It still looks the same as the previous one ....


Yes, I did.  Can you test 2.6.3-rc2 + this patch?

	Jeff