From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262859AbVG2XLW (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:11:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261512AbVG2XIm (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:08:42 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:45812 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262853AbVG2XFs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:05:48 -0400 From: Parag Warudkar To: Michael Thonke Subject: Re: PROBLEM: "drive appears confused" and "irq 18: nobody cared!" Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:05:36 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: Alexander Fieroch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl , Alan Cox , bzolnier@gmail.com, axboe@suse.de, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Alexey Dobriyan , Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com, Andrew Morton References: <42EAAFD4.4010303@web.de> <42EAD086.4010904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42EAD086.4010904@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507291905.37339.kernel-stuff@comcast.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 29 July 2005 20:57, Michael Thonke wrote: > Hello Alexander, > > do you run > A.) SATA in Enhanced Mode > B.) SATA+PATA or PATA operation mode? > > This problem I can reproduce when I  set A.)+B.) in bios I > exactly get the same behavior of confused cd - drives. > > Greets > > Best regards >              Michael I have this same problem on my laptop which doesn't have SATA. In my case I get the problem if I run 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 - Problem doesnt happen with 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 - which just means that tracking the patch causing this problem will be simpler... Parag