Bug#605395: JMicron Technology JMB362 JMB363 SError: { DevExch } ExpressCard, sometimes fails to boot

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Hi again,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Orson wrote:

>> If booting to a command prompt, the messages just keep filling up the terminal
>> every few seconds, making it really difficult to work this way.
>>
>> ata3: irq_stat 0x00000040, connection status changed
>> [   54.038441] ata3: SError: { DevExch }
[...]
>> Sometimes this happens at boot, and just stays in a loop, displaying this same
>> error on screen, removing the expresscard and reset solves the problem.
[...]
> I don't see any relevant fixes upstream unfortunately, but JMB363 is
> supposed to work.  If you get a chance, please test a recent v3.x
> version from unstable, letting us know the result, and if that fails
> then describe the symptoms to linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, cc-ing Aries
> Lee <arieslee@jmicron.com> and this bug log.

Orson, did you get a chance to try this (or any other news)?  To be
clear, I meant that it would be useful to try installing a
linux-image-3.<foo> package, along with linux-base and initramfs-tools
from sid or squeeze-backports, keeping the rest of the system as is.

If you're just short on time recently, that's fine, but if e.g. you no
longer have access to the hardware then we should know so we can stop
tracking it.

Thanks,
Jonathan