From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755314AbYGWVAV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:00:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753687AbYGWVAJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:00:09 -0400 Received: from dhcp-077-248-068-247.chello.nl ([77.248.68.247]:58881 "EHLO scorpion77.cjb.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751534AbYGWVAH (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:00:07 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2411 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:00:07 EDT From: Jeroen Beerstra To: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: non functional pata dvd drive under 2.6.25.6 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:19:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4880237A.7070002@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <4880237A.7070002@kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807232219.47760.jeroen@scorpion77.cjb.net> X-AntiVirus-By: Clam Antivirus 0.92.1 X-AntiSpam-By: Spamassassin 3.2.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Tejun, Op Friday 18 July 2008 07:00:42 schreef u: > Hello, Jeroen. > > [cc'ing linux-ide] > > Hmmm... the problem could be caused by hald polling for media presence. > Does "hal-disable-polling /dev/srX" make any difference? > hal-disable-polling setting is persistent so if your drive goes bonkers > quickly after boot, you can disable polling, reboot and see whether > anything is different. Also, please post the result of "lspci -nn" and > "hdparm -I /dev/srX" && please try 2.6.26. > > Thanks. I'm pretty sure about that since the hald process I'm refering to points to the 'faulty' drive. However simply booting with noapic seems to fix all of my problems. See: Bug 451081 @ bugzilla.redhat.com Bug 11044 @ bugzilla.kernel.org regards, Jeroen Beerstra