Hi, > I have both a dvd RW drive & a cd rom drive connected > the second ide interface on my motherboard with a via > chipset, using pata_via I see timeout messages in the > log & after some time both drives lockup and are > unable to mount any disks. I would suggest trying the following things: 1) Add both drives ("_NEC DVD_RW ND-3520" and "TSSTcorpDVD-ROM TS-H352A") to ata_device_blacklist in drivers/ata/libata-core.c using the ATA_HORKAGE_NODMA and ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_128 keywords and then recompile the kernel. 2) Move the CD and DVD RW drives to a computer with another chipset to determine whether they or the chipset are to blame. Vlad ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/ - 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