> Is that a PATA cd-drive? If so, then you must have hooked it up > to the JMicron IDE controller. That driver is just plain buggy. It ought to be rock solid, perhaps you can send me a detailed bug report. In fact it actually doesn't do very much at all as the controller is smart enough to do all the hard work itself. > I gave up on it for my own P5B-VM. The libata version works better > than the drivers/ide, but I gave up on it and got a SATA DVD/RW drive. The two drive the devices identically although if there was a problem I guess the libata one would recover better. Would appreciate bug reports anyway so I can do more detailed analysis. Alan - 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