From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161345AbWAMEks (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:40:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751488AbWAMEks (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:40:48 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:49448 "EHLO pd3mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751398AbWAMEkr (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:40:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:40:33 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: ide-cd turning off DMA when verifying DVD-R In-reply-to: <5uoqr-Qq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43C72F41.5060207@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <5ujmU-1UQ-665@gated-at.bofh.it> <5uoqr-Qq-7@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ville Syrjälä wrote: > I think the drive just takes too long to recongize the disc. My 4163B has > the same problem which is why I always close the tray manually or with > eject -t and wait a while before mounting or burning the disc. Of course > that won't help in your case. I guess the real fix would be to > increase some ide-cd timeout. I'm thinking the IDE code is too aggressive in assuming that the failure is because of a DMA problem and disabling it.. Most likely all that's happening is the drive is taking a long time to complete the current command. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/