Comment 8 for bug 440338

This continues to be a problem in the 9.10 release. I find the easiest solution for myself is to disable ACPI since this is an always-on media center. Any thoughts on whether the ATA command passthrough hiccup is specific to this model of hard drive enclosure, or potentially a more widespread problem? If so, this could be causing subtle performance problems with firewire drives.

Perhaps we can request that the ieee1394 driver be patched to avoid the long block associated with this error, but also pm-utils could try to detect and avoid failed calls to hdparm... (the driver blockage may be unavoidable?)