From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261351AbTIKQLN (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:11:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261352AbTIKQLM (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:11:12 -0400 Received: from zeus.netlab.rm.cnr.it ([150.146.100.23]:46018 "EHLO zeus.netlab.rm.cnr.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261351AbTIKQLJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:11:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3F60A0B9.6010001@iname.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:20:09 +0200 From: Flavio Reply-To: flavio26@iname.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PROBLEM:SCSI repeatable 2.4.22 bug Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry for sending previous email unfinished, my finger was quicker than my mind... I am trying to switch off dma on DVD-ROM which is used by ide-scsi, hdparm is useless, should I try to hdparm it before ide-scsi driver loads or use some command under scsi? TIA, Flavio > On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 13:39, flavio wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the hd and dvd light are constantly on from boot onwards (using vanilla >> 2.4.22 and the /var/log/messages is a sequence of messages as in >> attachment). >> 2.4.20 vanilla has no problems whatsoever... > > Your drive is returning more data than it was asked for or expected. > What model drives do you have and does turning off DMA for non disk fix > it ? I have a fujitsu laptop with: IC25N030ATCS04-0 ibm 30gb ide drive ide dvd/cdrw drive using ide-scsi driver: cat /proc/scsi/scsi: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-R2212 Rev: 1F15 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 hdparm is not present on disk, so I suppose hd parameters are not changed by rc scripts...