From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: 2.6.28: Timeout problem with AHCI SATA DVD drive Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:11:07 -0600 Message-ID: <4957F97B.2050002@shaw.ca> References: <4955F0F9.1030700@aon.at> <49567DFF.4000102@shaw.ca> <49572426.1070801@aon.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47173 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754484AbYL1WL0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:11:26 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LH3qz-0000hi-Km for linux-ide@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:11:21 +0000 Received: from s0106000c41bb86e1.ss.shawcable.net ([70.76.47.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:11:21 +0000 Received: from hancockr by s0106000c41bb86e1.ss.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:11:21 +0000 In-Reply-To: <49572426.1070801@aon.at> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Peter Klotz wrote: > 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? Almost certainly - you could see if there's a firmware update available..