Re: "exception Emask: 0x42" errors with 2.6.22.x and SATA drives

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Aug 24 2007 - 19:10:16 EST


> (1) there is 1 newer official BIOS release and 2 beta BIOSes out for
> this motherboard. The recent official BIOS (0901) does mention Linux:
>
> "Fixed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 installation failed"
>
> So maybe a BIOS update will fix things.

Yep

> So I guess these drives should be added to the ata_blacklist_entry in
> libata-core.c with ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ?

If you keep seeing the problem then yes
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