Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> [ 4362.972995] hdd: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } >> [ 4362.981475] ide: failed opcode was: unknown >> [ 4362.986183] hdd: drive not ready for command > What chipsets are you guys using? I tried 2.6.20-rc6, and forced my cdrom to be used by the ide piix driver instead of the sata one, so the device shows up as hda instead of a scsi one. And, if I use the ide piix driver for the cdrom then it works fine. I see IO going through the block layer sg io code which was modified in 2.6.20 to support larger IOs. Strangely, if I use the sata driver, then nero uses the sg driver (drivers/scsi/sg.c) instead of the block layer sg io code. But the sata code spits out: Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ata1.00: ATAPI check failed Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ata1.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0xac data 808 in Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: res 51/51:03:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation) Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ata1: soft resetting port Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x1F7 Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ata1.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x2) Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) Jan 29 12:03:21 madmax kernel: ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs Jan 29 12:03:33 madmax kernel: ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) Jan 29 12:03:56 madmax kernel: ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) Jan 29 12:03:56 madmax kernel: ata1: soft resetting port Jan 29 12:03:57 madmax kernel: ata1.00: configured for PIO4 Jan 29 12:03:57 madmax kernel: ata1: EH complete nero still works in this case, but is is sluggish. It takes a couple minutes to start up and on almost every operation like "Choose Recorder" spits out more error messages like above. This may be not be related. I am going to keep digging around. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html