Hello, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> How did it go? > > I found another machine with the same chipset and a different ATAPI SATA > drive; that one works okay in ahci mode. Well, there's no way all ICH9Ms are broken, so I'm afraid 'the same chipset' is a tad bit too wide unless it was the same board/machine. > There are no messages at all between "EH complete" and the string of SCSI > error messages: ... > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen > ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:02/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 512 in > cdb a1 08 2e 00 00 00 00 00 40 ec 00 00 00 00 00 00 > res 40/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata2.00: status: { DRDY } > ata2: hard resetting link > ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 > ata2: EH complete Here, BLANK has timed out but the device was recovered okay. > sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK > sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] > sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Logical block address out of range > end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 And after that, the media can't be read, so this one seems normal. Thanks. -- 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