Hello, Gavin. Gavin Cameron wrote: > I was hunting for a solution to my problem in the "known issues" section > of the Wiki - my problem being fully described here: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=192186 > > Would you be able to shed any light on this problem? Do you require any > other information from me? > It's usually best to describe in the mail again as people (I :-) tend not to follow link to other forums. So, ATAPI PIO is timing out. I thought we had most of these problems ironed out by now. Can you please try 2.6.26 and post full kernel boot log and if it too fails the error messages? > Anyway, as a side issue, I read the first problem about frequent head > unloads and noticed it as another problem I have. So, as requested, > attached are the outputs of "dmidecode" and "hdparm" > > This is definitelly happening on my PC called "picard" and occasionally > happens on "kirk" and I'm not sure which drive(s) in "picard" so I've > attached both. I don't think it would happen on a custom made PC. Can you please post the result of "smartctl -a"? -- 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