Jens Axboe wrote: > Wouldn't it be more interesting to fix the reason the new error > handling code dies with imm and ppa? Yes it would... :o) I think I've got it here. The new error handling code spinlocks the IRQ which cause the lowlevel parport driver to choke. This patch unlocks, allows the lowlevel driver to do it's probes, and then relocks. It could probably be more granular in the parport_pc code, but my own home tests show it to be working fine. John