> Unfortunately I don't have another machine to try these drives in. But > they both worked OK under the old ide code -- the problems only started > with the move to libata. > > I guess the commands timing out are udev probing to see if a disk has > been inserted ? Probably. If you can file a bug in bugzilla and assign it to me I'll take a look at this after the kernel summit. There are one or two reports with pata_via and ATAPI (ie CD) that look similar. - 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