Distribution:Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo, all Hardware Environment:NF7-s v1 Maxtor 120Gig 6Y120M0 Software Environment:Kernel greater then 2.6.5 Problem Description:Kernel screams on attempt to boot and locks up system using the libata module. Boots fine with older ata module. Steps to reproduce:
(I'm not a kernel developer, just an user) I have the same problem. Kernel hang up during boot whenever loading sil 3112a with libata driver. I found this discussion. first patch of this thread helps me from lock up. But I think it is a "quirk" patch. http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg63401.html Real patch is needed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3880 ***