On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have a problem with SATA DVD drive and ICH8M on ASUS F80L. I insert >> a disk, try mounting it, mount fails. Then the drive gets lost, and I >> can't even eject the tray until power cycle. Kernel is vanilla >> 2.6.27.6. See dmesg, lspci, lshw output and kernel config attached. >> Let me know if more info is needed. > > Looks like your drive doesn't like hald polling for media presence. > Does hal-disable-polling /dev/sr0 help? It doesn't. The thing changed is I get this: [145864.448091] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [145864.448103] ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:08/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 2048 in [145864.448104] cdb 28 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [145864.448106] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) [145864.448109] ata2.00: status: { DRDY } [145864.448116] ata2: hard resetting link [145869.808081] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [145874.468074] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) [145874.468084] ata2: hard resetting link [145879.828096] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [145884.476079] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) [145884.476090] ata2: hard resetting link [145889.836093] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) [145919.516093] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) [145919.516103] ata2: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [145919.516106] ata2: hard resetting link [145924.540080] ata2: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) [145924.540089] ata2: reset failed, giving up [145924.540092] ata2.00: disabled [145924.540107] ata2: EH complete [145924.540148] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK [145924.540153] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 68 [145924.540181] UDF-fs: No VRS found after mount attempt (not right after disk is inserted). -- 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