It seems Devin Butterfield wrote:
> That's interesting...In my case it is quite easily reproduced (very
> predictable). All I have to do is reboot and then run sysinstall and
> when it probes the devices the disks time out. So far I have not been
> able to get this behavior at any other time.
>
> I should also note that it repeatedly try's "resetting devices...done."
> many times (number of times it does this varies).
>
> Soren, since the problem is reproducible in my case, can you think of
> anything else I can try to help shed some light on what might be causing
> these time-outs we are having?
Hmm, does the problem persist if you increase the timeout in ata-disk.c
to some too big value, like 100 secs or so??
If so, there is something causing the timeout function to be called
without a real timeout. This could be the problem, I just dont see how
that would be possible...
-Søren
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