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)
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
I had another thought. Unless this is a very old DVD it should be
running at more than UDMA/33, if it's reasonably new did you check that
it is on an 80 pin cable instead of a 40? There is a problem identifying
the cable in some hardware, and a trick to forcing the cable to be
treated as 80 pin. I probably have that put away somewhere, but I didn't
find it quickly.
You might have to search LKML for "80 pin cable" or similar. If it's an
old drive forget I said this. ;-)
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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