Firstly, if this is not the right place for this message, I apologize. In this case, disregard. I have a problem which I suspect is a bug in libata, but of course I could be wrong. The problem is: After going from Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon kernel 5.4.0-97 to Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon kernel 5.4.0-107 I discovered that I could not (reliably) access my optical drive anymore. It produces errors like: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x40d0000 action 0xe frozen ata1: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake 10B8B DevExch } ata1.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:fc/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 131072 in Read(10) 28 00 00 00 05 61 00 00 40 00res 50/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 5508 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 19 prio class 0 ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x1) The system was Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon with kernel 5.4.0-107-generic, mobo ASRock model X570 Taichi. After some tests I found out: Kernel 5.4.0-99 works OK; Kernel 5.4.0-100 has the problem; Kernel 5.13.0-30 works OK; Kernel 5.13.0-35 has the problem. The problem is described more fully in https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=371251 I reported the bug to the Launchpad Ubuntu site under number #1968155: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1968155 One other person (as far as I know) has the same problem. I froze my kernel at 5.13.0-30, so for the moment I can use my system. I realize that there are probably not many users with an ASRock X570 mobo, and in that group only a few would be using a BD reader/burner. However, it would be nice if I could again keep my kernel current. With kind regards, Jaap Berkhout
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