On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:58:24AM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use, at home, a pretty old i386 machine with a VT82C686A IDE
> controller supported by the viaide(4) driver. It worked fine until
> recently (SATA support changes ?), but now i'm experiencing some
> problems ...
> 
> The machine becomes unresponsive with not so heavy disk access; by
> example, while trying to create/update system building tools. At that
> time, after recovering, simply getting a new xterm show that the disks
> get 100% busy for a few second.

I can't see how the SATA changes could be responsible for this; the code
used by non-SATA controllers was not touched. Do you get any message
in dmesg ? Are you sure your box is not swapping ?

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