Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

>> Okay. Then the patched wd.c file somehow causes that powerd doesn't
>> start. Any ideas what might be responsible for this and how I could get
>> powerd starting also with the patched wd.c?
> 
> My guess is that the system is so slow with the patched wd.c that it wasn't
> started yet

Okay, that might be.

> With an unpatched kernel, you could try a dkctl wd0 synccache
> and see what it returns.

It returns:
# dkctl wd0 synccache
dkctl: /dev/rwd0c: sync cache: Operation not supported by device

What does this tell us? Sounds bad, doesn't it?

> You can also try the attached patch instead of the old one, to see if the
> ata revision reported by your drive is the problem.

I am compiling a new kernel with this patch and will test it this
evening.

Michael