Harri wrote: > Hi Tejun, > > Is it possible that the DMA workaround for sata_sil and the > Samsung SH-S183A DVD writer was lost for 2.6.24-rc1? I found No, I don't think we ever had workaround for sata_sil + SH-S183A combination. Do you have any specific patch/commit in mind? > this in syslog: [--snip--] > Oct 28 11:29:26 pluto kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr > 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > Oct 28 11:29:26 pluto kernel: ata4.00: cmd > a0/01:00:00:10:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0xa4 data 16 in > Oct 28 11:29:26 pluto kernel: res > 40/00:02:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > Oct 28 11:29:26 pluto kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY } > Oct 28 11:29:27 pluto kernel: ata4: soft resetting link > Oct 28 11:29:32 pluto kernel: ata4: port is slow to respond, please be > patient (Status 0xf8) > Oct 28 11:29:37 pluto kernel: ata4: SRST failed (errno=-16) > Oct 28 11:29:37 pluto kernel: ata4: hard resetting link > Oct 28 11:29:37 pluto kernel: ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 > SControl 310) > Oct 28 11:29:38 pluto kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33 > Oct 28 11:29:38 pluto kernel: ata4: EH complete > Oct 28 11:29:38 pluto kernel: sr0: disc change detected. > > Its difficult to reproduce, though. The failing command is REPORT_KEY. What were you doing when you saw this error? Not being reproducible indicates that it's unlikely to be a DMA issue and more likely a temporary glitch in media recognition. Thanks. -- tejun - 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