ATA_FLUSHCACHE failing

[Søren Schmidt]

Anthony Ginepro wrote:
>>Mark Santcroos wrote:

>>>>We should find out why it does not return, my guess is that 
>>>>it doesn't interrupt and the timeout doesn't fire because we are on the 
>>>>way down...
>>>
>>>Any hints where to start looking?
>>>
>>>I'll keep investigating myself too.
>>
>>Hmm, first you could enable the ATA request debug code in ata-all.h, 
>>then set the ATA_R_DEBUG flag when the flush command is issued. That 
>>should give an idea where it goes south...

> I tried what Mark suggested and finally kernel dumps work now.
> Here is my dmesg attached for more information.

Something popped into mind, the addump routine does a flush when its 
done dumping, from the description so far its not clear to me if it 
hangs *before* the dump starts or hangs when it about finished ?

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-Søren