> ata1.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S183L, SB01, max UDMA/33, ATAPI AN Everyones favourite vendor right now > ata1.00: applying bridge limits > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 It seems to be seeing a SATA/PATA bridge here ? This is a PATA device on a SATA bridge ? If not something is very very broken as we are seeing a SATA cable type and a device not indentifying itself as SATA. > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata1.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 > res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata1.00: status: { DRDY } We try and talk to it, it ends up stuck busy. > ata1: soft resetting link > ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 > ata1: EH complete Kick it, back it comes > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 Fails again > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata1.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 > res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata1.00: status: { DRDY } > ata1: soft resetting link Repeat > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 11 SControl 300) > ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs > ata1: hard resetting link > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Try again at 1.5Gbit > ata1: hard resetting link > ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) > ata1.00: disabled > ata1: EH complete We give up on it. First guess would be to replace the TSST drive with another vendors device and see what occurs. If that does the same thing it eliminates drive firmware. If that doesn't help then need to know more about the bridge etc Alan - 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