Hi, the driver for my Via 8237a sata/ide controller seems to have huge problems with my ide dvd drive: often during reading -but also just after the plain insertion od a dvd- I see messages like the following in the log: Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4: soft resetting port Dec 30 13:12:05 xp kernel: ata4.00: configured for PIO0 Dec 30 13:12:06 xp kernel: ata4.01: configured for UDMA/25 Dec 30 13:12:06 xp kernel: ata4: EH complete and obviously the dvd drive becomes unaccessible. The 2 Sata disks work perfectly (so far). The drive is not broken, as Solaris on the same pc has been working perfectly for a long time. Does anyone know how I can solve my problems? Thanks, Nico
