On Friday 19 October 2007, Nick Warne wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007 22:07:43 Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Nick Warne wrote: > > > No change: > > > > > > ide_setup: hdd=ide-cd > > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA > > > hdd: TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S202J, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > > > hdd: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to > > > UDMA33 hdd: selected mode 0x42 > > > hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > > > > Did you try another cable? DId you try using both the old IDE drivers > > and the new PATA libata drivers? What is the hdd=ide-cd supposed to > > do? Do you have a device present as hdc and if not, then why not? > > (Hint: ATA spec requires a master before you can have a slave, even > > though it frequently does work with just a slave. Of course cable > > select seems even nicer since then the device at the end of an 80 wire > > cable is automatically master, and any additional device added to the > > middle connector on the cable becomes slave, and you should not connect > > a device to the middle connector without one on the end). > > > > Also make sure the right end of the cable is connected to the mainboard, > > just in case that matters. > > I have (since 2.6.15 at least) hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd. > > hda and hdb are mounted at boot. hdc is not mounted, as I leave that drive > for backups and mount as needed. > > All I done was replace a duff cd/dvd drive (hdd) with a new one. Ah, so the patch won't help (sorry, I didn't pay enough attention). Len's advices are worth the try, also please send the output of hdparm -I /dev/hdd. Thanks, Bart - 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