On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:39:11PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: > The short and sweet is that CDs fail to mount and the message (over and > over again) is: > > kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > kernel: hdc: irq timeout: error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0x0d > kernel: hdc: DMA disabled > kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Its interesting that ide-scsi works here and ide-cd doesn't. > advised to use ide-cd instead. But that doesn't work. And I've read > people saying that cd writing is bad with ide-scsi. Its not "bad", its just an uglier interface. > hdc: _NEC DVD+RW ND-5100A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive You might want to also add a bug to bugzilla.kernel.org for this, and let Jens Axboe/Bartlomiej know too - its an interesting bug and one I've not seen elsewhere. The other "need ide-scsi" cases are multichangers and we understand that fine