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Subject: Re: PROBLEM:SCSI repeatable 2.4.22 bug
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: flavio <flavio.l@tiscali.it>
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On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 13:39, flavio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the hd and dvd light are constantly on from boot onwards (using vanilla
> 2.4.22 and the /var/log/messages is a sequence of messages as in
> attachment).
> 2.4.20 vanilla has no problems whatsoever...

Your drive is returning more data than it was asked for or expected.
What model drives do you have and does turning off DMA for non disk fix
it ?