Hi Tejun, Your last patch contained zero bytes. Please check. Tejun Heo wrote:
Please report the result of... $ strace xine <whatever you need to play dvd> > out 2>&1
out.gz is >400KByte compressed. See private EMail. Below is the output in kern.log. This time it is the correct output (hopefully). After this the drive was unaccessible. Regards Harri ============================================================= May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0xad data 2052 in May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: res 40/00:00:00:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: ata2: soft resetting port May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: CLASSIFY TF 00/01:01:01:14:eb/a0 <6>ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: ata2.00: XXX: IDENTIFY May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 00: 6d58 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 08: 35e8 5e2c c8b8 0c15 b87e 15c8 7e0c c8b8 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 10: 0c15 b87e 15c8 7e0c e898 2c35 985e 66aa May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 18: 6e1e c8b8 0c15 cc0d 66bc 3d43 9ae8 6f71 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 20: b71a 63ac 090c bbd0 0166 a966 06a9 7e0c May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 28: c8b8 0c15 b87e 15c8 7e0c c8b8 0c15 985e May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 30: 35e8 512c e898 2e35 9a5e 35ee 5e2c e898 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 38: 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35ef May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 40: 5e2f e8e0 2c4d 9826 3590 5e2c e898 2c35 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 48: 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2a37 985e 3580 5e6c May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 50: e898 2c35 985e 75e8 1e2c e898 2c35 d85e May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 58: 31ef 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 60: 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 68: 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 70: 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 78: e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 80: 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 88: 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 90: 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: 98: 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: a0: e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: a8: 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: b0: 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: b8: 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: c0: 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: c8: e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: d0: 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: d8: 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: e0: 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: e8: 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: f0: e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: f8: 35e8 5e2c e898 2c35 985e 35e8 5e2c 743d May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (device reports illegal type, err_mask=0x0) May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-22) May 7 20:16:10 pluto kernel: ata2.00: disabled May 7 20:16:11 pluto kernel: ata2: EH complete May 7 20:16:11 pluto kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! May 7 20:16:48 pluto kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0 May 7 20:16:48 pluto kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1 : : - 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