Re: Infinite loop on MODE-SENSE with a removable ATAPI sata device on VIA chipset

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Dario Oliva wrote:
> 
> Attached are some kernel messeges. I ran dmesg several times and

None attached. :)

> appended the output to the attached file, so there may be some
> redudancy. However some of the commands or debug lines do appear to
> repeat themselves. As you requested, I changed "#undef ATA_DEBUG" to
> "#define ATA_DEBUG".
> 
> As far as the device is concerned, is an unreleased product of the
> company I work for. That's why I did not give a name, because we don't
> have an official name yet. But like I said, it is SATA, removalbe ATAPI.
> If you want/need more information let me know.

I asked the model because plexstor list some of their drives as PIO only 
with VIA controllers.  I don't know why.  But VIA + plextor combination 
seems to have some problems and your problem might be a similar one. 
Have you tried the drive with other controllers?

-- 
tejun