Re: SMART problems in 2.6.22

[Bruce Allen]

Hi Jeff,

> > > It's possible that the recent addition of ACPI support will cause disks to 
> > > be in different modes than previously expected.  ACPI supplies ATA 
> > > taskfiles to be pushed to the disk, and who knows what's in there...
> >
> > Is there a simple way I can have affected users test this?  Is there a 
> > kernel boot flag or sysctl setting or something else they can use to 
> > disable the ACPI stuff so see if the problem then goes away?
>
> The 'noacpi' module option.

OK, thanks.

Klaus, Jan: could you please see if your problem with 2.6.22 goes away 
with noacpi passed as a flag to libata?

Jeff: I will add the noacpi test suggestion into the Debian bug report 
here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428975 to try to 
ensure that Klaus sees it.

Cheers,
	Bruce
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