On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 01:33 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > 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. Hi Alan, your [PATCH] libata: Set transfer sizes properly for ATAPI fixes this for me. I've been running 2.6.23-rc7 + your patch since yesterday evening and have not seen any timeout messages. I can mount and read disks on either drive with no problems. thanks for tracking this down Richard - 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