From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752718AbYGXHAj (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:00:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751384AbYGXHAY (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:00:24 -0400 Received: from dhcp-077-248-068-247.chello.nl ([77.248.68.247]:60895 "EHLO scorpion77.cjb.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750696AbYGXHAX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:00:23 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1305 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:00:23 EDT Message-ID: <28993.213.197.214.77.1216881506.squirrel@scorpion77.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <20080723220107.3d26e30a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <4880237A.7070002@kernel.org> <200807232219.47760.jeroen@scorpion77.cjb.net> <20080723220107.3d26e30a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:38:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: non functional pata dvd drive under 2.6.25.6 From: "Jeroen Beerstra" To: "Alan Cox" Cc: "Jeroen Beerstra" , "Tejun Heo" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "IDE/ATA development list" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-4.0.1.el4.XOS.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal 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 > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:19:47 +0200 > Jeroen Beerstra wrote: > >> 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. > > There are lots of similar reports. I don't know what broke the APIC code > but it doesn't appear any of these are libata bugs. > > Alan > As soon as I have my system back and running again I will test the patch that was attached to the rh bugzilla report, perhaps that will make things a bit clearer. Jeroen