Mark Lord wrote: > I believe he said it was ICH5 (different post/thread). > > My observation on ICH5 is that if one unplugs a drive, > then the chipset/cpu locks up hard when toggling SRST > in the EH code. > > Specifically, it locks up at the instruction > which restores SRST back to the non-asserted state, > which likely corresponds to the chipset finally actually > sending a FIS to the drive. > > A hard(ware) lockup, not software. > That's why Intel says ICH5 doesn't do hotplug.
OIC. I don't think there's much left to do from the driver side then. Or is there any workaround? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
