Il Sunday 17 February 2008 10:29:03 dexter ha scritto: > On Sat February 16 2008 08:50:48 Nico Sabbi wrote: > > Hi, > > I have those very frequent resets when accessing my IDE dvd, especially > > (but not only) after a cold boot. > > > > UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) Mounting volume 'ATONEMENT', timestamp > > 2007/11/09 03:21 (103c) ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 > > action 0x2 frozen > > ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x1e data 0 > > res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > > ata3: soft resetting port > > ata3: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) > > ata3: SRST failed (errno=-16) > > ata3: soft resetting port > > ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 > > ata3.01: configured for UDMA/33 > > ata3: EH complete > > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > ata3.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x1e data 0 > > res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > > ata3: soft resetting port > > ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 > > ata3.01: configured for UDMA/33 > > > > > > Kernel is: Linux xp 2.6.23.9-85.fc8, but the same thing happened with > > every kernel come out. > > Chipset is: > > 00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237A SATA 2-Port > > Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. > > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 07) > > > > > > What can I do to remove the cause of this problem (except changing > > motherboard) ? > > > It doesn't look that serious 'I think', hit bugzilla and look at these for > more info #243238 #245426 add to or open at your leisure. > > ...dex > looking at those bugzilla entries the issue seems to be still unfixed; it is a serious problem: every kind of cd/dvd access from that point onward requires a reboot. Apparently libata is to blame; I'll recompile the kernel without libata (hoping that both SATA and PATA are still accessible) until that bug is fixed
