Elad Lahav wrote: > After upgrading from 2.6.26.5 to 2.6.27.4, my DVD drive started having > problems during boot time. Here is the relevant part from dmesg: > > ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-T11N, A103, max UDMA/33 > ata2.00: applying bridge limits > ata2.00: Drive reports diagnostics failure. This may indicate a drive > ata2.00: fault or invalid emulation. Contact drive vendor for information. > ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 > scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3250820AS 3.AD PQ: 0 > ANSI: 5 > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 36 in > cdb 12 00 00 00 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata2.00: status: { DRDY } > ata2: hard resetting link > [continue ad inifitum....] > > The drive is reported as "HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-T11N, A103", connected > to an nVidia MCP51 controller. Googling around, I found similar > complaints in the past for other nVidia controllers using the sata_nv > driver (though I couldn't find anything about the MCP51). I tried > compiling the version of sata_nv that comes with 2.6.26.5, but that did > not solve my problems. > > I can provide further details if necessary. Does 2.6.27.5 make any difference? -- 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