ATAng probe updated please test

[Jan Srzednicki]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:23:02AM +0200, Jan Srzednicki wrote:
> > I've gone over the probe code once again.
> > 
> > Please test, and in case it fails to detect or misdetects anything,
> > mail me the output of dmesg from a verbose boot, and state what
> > devices actually are there.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The new stuff still failed to detect properly my hardware. Whole dmesg is
> attached. But, mysteriously, after two reboots the problem vanished, and
> I can see my HW as I should:

OK, the drive did not get detected once again. This seems to be pretty
random.

> Anyway,
> On the new kernel, reboot (after waiting for all the fsck's to finish)
> resulted in panic when syncer was called to flush everything. This has
> happened only once, I cannot reproduce it, yet the syncer problem
> (giving up on 1 buffer) persist. It is not a problem with the aio
> module, as I have removed it, and it still happens. Willing to provide
> more feedback, if I knew how..

I've found this thing is related to ext2fs, as I stated in different
thread.

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