From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Klotz Subject: Re: 2.6.28: Timeout problem with AHCI SATA DVD drive Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:00:54 +0100 Message-ID: <49572426.1070801@aon.at> References: <4955F0F9.1030700@aon.at> <49567DFF.4000102@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from WARSL404PIP3.highway.telekom.at ([195.3.96.115]:5655 "EHLO email.aon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305AbYL1HA6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:00:58 -0500 Received: from 212-183-96-186.adsl.highway.telekom.at (HELO [192.168.0.100]) ([212.183.96.186]) (envelope-sender ) by smarthub92.highway.telekom.at (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Dec 2008 07:00:55 -0000 In-Reply-To: <49567DFF.4000102@shaw.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Robert Hancock wrote: > OK, so it's a "test unit ready" command that got sent to the drive and > it timed out, then the resets after that all failed. That's essentially > the simplest command there is, so it seems likely that the drive went > off into the weeds and stopped talking to us. Whether or not we can do > anything to prevent it, I'm not sure. > > You're sure the drive always detects that same disc properly in Windows? You are right. I finally was able to reproduce this behavior in Windows. The event log filled up with errors while the disc kept spinning. So this may be a drive firmware issue? Regards, Peter.