> version 2.6.18, 2.6.19.1 and they give the same result. If I connect > the drive to my SiI 3114 controller and boot 2.6.20-rc6 the drive > works perfectly. Very interesting it is tied to the controller, but that fits what Tejun was seeing. > I also tried booting kernel version 2.6.17. It gives an error message > and stalls for a while during boot, but the drive is working somewhat. > I managed to read the contents of a cd a few days ago, but when I > tried the same thing today my computer hung half way through. I > haven't been able to play dvds. > > Any ideas? I posted a patch to the IDE list yesterday for testing which performs the workarounds the old IDE layer does for this. I'll forward you a copy - 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
