Hi, same laptop that had trouble with the Fedroa 7 test kernels: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227207 Timeout messages below appear during boot and mounting a cd times out and fails. Full dmesg output at: http://www.math.missouri.edu/~lima/2.6.23-rc6-dmesg.txt Is this a known bug? scsi0 : pata_ali scsi1 : pata_ali ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00012480 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00012488 irq 15 ata1.00: ATA-5: IC25N030ATCS04-0, CA3OA71A, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 58605120 sectors, multi 16: LBA ata1.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2.00: ATAPI: SONY CD-RW CRX800E, 1.1d, max MWDMA2 ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA IC25N030ATCS04-0 CA3O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting port ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting port ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting port ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: limiting speed to MWDMA1:PIO4 ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 96 in res 40/00:02:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2: soft resetting port ata2.00: configured for MWDMA1 ata2: EH complete scsi scan: 96 byte inquiry failed. Consider BLIST_INQUIRY_36 for this device scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM SONY CD-RW CRX800E 1.1d PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Thanks, -- Vegard Lima - 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