On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 11:09:19AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > (cc'ing Albert, Mark and Sergei. Hi!) > > Art Haas wrote: > > Hi. Sorry to say the CD-ROM is still not found. Full 'dmesg' output > > listed below in hopes it provides clues. > > Erggghh.. I'm sorry too. I thought I found it this time. > > > ata_piix 0000:00:07.1: version 2.00ac7 > > ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xF008 irq 15 > > You have UDMA/33 PATA port. > > > ata2.00: ATAPI, max MWDMA1 > > The initial reset and PACKET_IDENTIFY went well. > > > ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) > > Then, PACKET_IDENTIFY after configuring transfer mode fails with > -ENOENT. Meaning it saw (status & (ATA_BUSY|ATA_DRQ|ATA_ERR|ATA_DF)) == > 0 in HSM_ST. > > libata resets silently and tries to revalidate the device. > > > ata2.00: limiting speed to PIO4 > > ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > > ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) > > ata2.00: limiting speed to PIO0 > > ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > > ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-2) > > ata2.00: disabled > > All of those tries fail and libata gives up the device. > > * Something went wrong with mode programming. It seems pretty old > (reporting max UDMA/33). Art, can you post the result of 'lspci -nn'? Here you are ... # lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge [8086:7190] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge [8086:7191] (rev 02) 00:07.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA [8086:7110] (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE [8086:7111] (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB [8086:7112] (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge [0680]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI [8086:7113] (rev 02) 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX [5333:8a01] (rev 01) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet [1186:1300] (rev 10) # Please let me know of anything thing else I can send that may help. Art Haas -- Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822 - 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