Hi;
I seem to have the identical problem with system hangs on boot. The 
problem I see occurs on a Abit BP6
on the first access of the first drive on the HPT-366 interface. The 
problem occurs on all -ac-x revisions
1 through 3.  The attached log is from an boot on 2.4.19-pre4 which did 
not hang but the log is identical
except for the fact that the hang occurs with only the "hde:" portion of 
the last line displayed.
If I can provide any further information pleas let me know via the list 
or direct email.
Art Wagner

Andre Hedrick wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>>This is possible, however one of the problems encountered is the
>>>following under several chipsets.  If there is no pio timing set at all,
>>>then we can run into host lock issues if the driver drops out of dma.
>>>Thus, if it is going to lockup here it would/could lock up in other
>>>places when one trys to program the host for PIO.
>>>
>>Well right at the moment the ALi locks up on boot reliably. That means a
>>fix has to be found, or the ALi changes reverted 
>>
>
>Pull out the GOOF-UP of mine :-/
>
>autotune is enabled and does the same thing, Gurrr....
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andre Hedrick
>LAD Storage Consulting Group
>
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