Sometime since v2.6.28, one of my systems started getting libata errors for my CD drive. I have started bisecting this problem, but that system is very slow so it will likely take a while. The ide/ata parts of the dmesg output: ============================= SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 3.00 loaded. pata_ali 0000:00:0f.0: can't derive routing for PCI INT A pata_ali 0000:00:0f.0: setting latency timer to 64 scsi0 : pata_ali scsi1 : pata_ali ata1: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xfc90 irq 14 ata2: PATA max MWDMA2 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xfc98 irq 15 ata1.00: ATA-6: HTS541010G9AT00, MBZOA60A, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 195371568 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HTS541010G9AT00 MBZO PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ata2.00: ATAPI: SR242S, z03, max MWDMA2 ata2.00: WARNING: ATAPI DMA disabled for reliablity issues. It can be enabled ata2.00: WARNING: via pata_ali.atapi_dma modparam or corresponding sysfs node. ata2.00: configured for PIO4 scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM MITSUMI CD-ROM SR242S !A z03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found udevd version 128 started ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode. Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors: (100 GB/93.1 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors: (100 GB/93.1 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 9 PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3 (no)acl options not supported EXT3 (no)user_xattr options not supported udevd version 128 started pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation) ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata2: soft resetting link ata2.00: configured for PIO4 ata2: EH complete sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x3 (HSM violation) ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata2: soft resetting link -- 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