diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c b/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
index 1ccaf467d516a943077caa4765adb3c93a40927a..3855bfa8e8d4465a88a2be80383241eec0873bd3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ retry:
 	}
 
 	/* ATAPI-specific feature tests */
-	else {
+	else if (dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI) {
 		if (ata_id_is_ata(dev->id))		/* sanity check */
 			goto err_out_nosup;
 
@@ -2399,7 +2399,7 @@ static void ata_sg_clean(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
 	if (qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_SINGLE)
 		assert(qc->n_elem == 1);
 
-	DPRINTK("unmapping %u sg elements\n", qc->n_elem);
+	VPRINTK("unmapping %u sg elements\n", qc->n_elem);
 
 	/* if we padded the buffer out to 32-bit bound, and data
 	 * xfer direction is from-device, we must copy from the
@@ -3432,16 +3432,11 @@ struct ata_queued_cmd *ata_qc_new_init(struct ata_port *ap,
 
 	qc = ata_qc_new(ap);
 	if (qc) {
-		qc->__sg = NULL;
-		qc->flags = 0;
 		qc->scsicmd = NULL;
 		qc->ap = ap;
 		qc->dev = dev;
-		qc->cursect = qc->cursg = qc->cursg_ofs = 0;
-		qc->nsect = 0;
-		qc->nbytes = qc->curbytes = 0;
 
-		ata_tf_init(ap, &qc->tf, dev->devno);
+		ata_qc_reinit(qc);
 	}
 
 	return qc;
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index ad5996183ec2fcfa83c0c0068f7774cb0112f3e3..f2dbb684ce9e4fce7e76ed09399ebf68cbe2c068 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
 #define VPRINTK(fmt, args...)
 #endif	/* ATA_DEBUG */
 
+#define BPRINTK(fmt, args...) if (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_DEBUGMSG) printk(KERN_ERR "%s: " fmt, __FUNCTION__, ## args)
+
 #ifdef ATA_NDEBUG
 #define assert(expr)
 #else
@@ -119,6 +121,7 @@ enum {
 	ATA_FLAG_PIO_DMA	= (1 << 8), /* PIO cmds via DMA */
 	ATA_FLAG_NOINTR		= (1 << 9), /* FIXME: Remove this once
 					     * proper HSM is in place. */
+	ATA_FLAG_DEBUGMSG	= (1 << 10),
 
 	ATA_QCFLAG_ACTIVE	= (1 << 1), /* cmd not yet ack'd to scsi lyer */
 	ATA_QCFLAG_SG		= (1 << 3), /* have s/g table? */
@@ -659,6 +662,17 @@ static inline void ata_tf_init(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf, uns
 		tf->device = ATA_DEVICE_OBS | ATA_DEV1;
 }
 
+static inline void ata_qc_reinit(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
+{
+	qc->__sg = NULL;
+	qc->flags = 0;
+	qc->cursect = qc->cursg = qc->cursg_ofs = 0;
+	qc->nsect = 0;
+	qc->nbytes = qc->curbytes = 0;
+
+	ata_tf_init(qc->ap, &qc->tf, qc->dev->devno);
+}
+
 
 /**
  *	ata_irq_on - Enable interrupts on a port.