From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Infinite loop on MODE-SENSE with a removable ATAPI sata device on VIA chipset Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:59:03 +0900 Message-ID: <4461FFB7.90000@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236]:14666 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964941AbWEJO7J (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 10:59:09 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i34so1536467wra for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 07:59:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Dario Oliva Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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