On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:01:05 +0900 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > PIONEER DVD-RW DVRTD08 times out SETXFER if no media is present. The > device is SATA and simply skipping SETXFER works around the problem. > Implement ATA_HORKAGE_NOSETXFER and apply it to the device. NAK Sorry you can't just blindly do this because some of the controllers snoop the SETXFER command to set their timings and whether they expect DMA. Also we've no idea if this is a bug in a specific firmware revision, a quirky pata/sata bridge or a timing problem of some sort. 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