[Bulk] hda dma seek errors

[manuel.bertrand at lif.univ-mrs.fr (Manuel BERTRAND)]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>- Multiple ATA devices on a channel conflicting
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Right, I forgot this one. Check if you don't have an old cd-drive  on 
the same IDE cable.

>- Hdparm optimizing the ATA channel and IDE disk incorrectly
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Did you tweak this?

>- Many, many others
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>But in every case I had, when the drive _had_ worked prior
>without issue, it was a kernel upgrade and that ATA driver. 
>As I mentioned before, there have been many documented cases
>of this, as well as the politics of the ATA code in the
>kernel (around 2.4.18-19 IIRC).
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