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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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There appear to be a variety of platform problems that lead to trouble 
with libata (and also with the IDE driver to some extent), with the 
default x86-64 kernel + some buggy BIOSes + some iommu weirdness.

Here are some boot options to mix and match:
	nomce, iommu=off, noapic, acpi=off

And also try using an SMP kernel (CONFIG_SMP) rather than a uniprocessor 
one.

	Jeff