Re: PROBLEM: "drive appears confused" and "irq 18: nobody cared!"

Alexey Dobriyan
2005-07-30T01:35:43Z

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:05:36PM -0400, Parag Warudkar wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 20:57, Michael Thonke wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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...

--- 2.6.12-r4.txt [1]
+++ 2.6.12-r6.txt [2]
+1003_linux-2.6.12.3.patch <-----------------------+
+1370_sparc-modpost_stt_reg.patch |
-1900_acpi-irq-0.patch included in ----+
+2700_irqpoll.patch [3]
From: Alan Cox
Subject: [PATCH] irqpoll
+2900_gameport-probe.patch

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/patches-2.6.12-7.htm
[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/patches-2.6.12-10.htm
[3] http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=200803dfe4ff772740d63db725ab2f1b185ccf92;hp=21fe3471c3aaa5c489c5d3a4d705291eb7511248