From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752000AbXCLXCR (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:02:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752130AbXCLXCP (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:02:15 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:54322 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752000AbXCLXBt (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:01:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:04:59 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Mark Lord Cc: Phil Kaslo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use. Message-ID: <20070313000459.6739c3cb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <45F5D59E.10304@rtr.ca> References: <200703122212.l2CMCaxm032601@osprey.cs.arizona.edu> <45F5D59E.10304@rtr.ca> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Is that a PATA cd-drive? If so, then you must have hooked it up > to the JMicron IDE controller. That driver is just plain buggy. It ought to be rock solid, perhaps you can send me a detailed bug report. In fact it actually doesn't do very much at all as the controller is smart enough to do all the hard work itself. > I gave up on it for my own P5B-VM. The libata version works better > than the drivers/ide, but I gave up on it and got a SATA DVD/RW drive. The two drive the devices identically although if there was a problem I guess the libata one would recover better. Would appreciate bug reports anyway so I can do more detailed analysis. Alan