[cc'ing Albert] Vasily Averin wrote: > Tejun, Jeff > > I've noticed that some scsi commands for DVD-drive attached to pata_via > successfully finishes without any delays but reports about TIMEOUT condition. It > happens because of ATA_ERR bit is set in status register. As result for each > command Error Handler thread awakened, requests sense buffer and go to sleep again. Need more info. Please post boot dmesg and the result of 'lspci -nn' and 'hdparm -I /dev/srX' and when such errors occur. Thanks. -- tejun - 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