Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:58:51 -0500 | From | "Keenan Pepper" <> | Subject | Re: Timeouts on ICH7 PATA drive with ata_piix; ide_generic worksperfectly |
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Tejun Heo wrote: > * Does putting in a readable CD or DVD make any difference?
Yes, I ran for an hour with an audio CD in the drive and there were no timeouts.
> * Does the problem occur in single mode where no HAL or whatever is running?
No, there were no timeouts in single mode even without a CD in the drive.
> Auch, scrap the last paragraph. You actually did. Sorry about that. ;-)
Well, partly my fault for letting Gmail give it the wrong MIME type. Should have made the filenames end in .txt.
> I see your controller is ICH7 and the errors are over ten minutes apart. > It really seems that HAL, smartd, hddtemp or whatever is poking the dvd > writer and it isn't happy about it. In addition to the above questions, > you can read cd/dvd's using the drive, right?
Yes, the optical drive itself works great; I can even burn DVDs.
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