Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:01:07 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: non functional pata dvd drive under 2.6.25.6 |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:19:47 +0200 Jeroen Beerstra <jeroen@scorpion77.cjb.net> 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
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