On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:00:28 Simon Andrews wrote: > Nico Sabbi wrote: > > 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) > >> > >> 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. > > > > 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 > > I've also got this problem (BZ#379771). In my case and many others > the work round is to add the following to the kernel boot options: > > libata.pata_dma=1 > > It's still annoying that this has been hanging around for so long. > > Simon. that, if I understand correctly, means "when using libata enable dma only for disks (not on cd/tape/etc)" correct?
