From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756017AbYEWUbR (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 16:31:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756125AbYEWUbK (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 16:31:10 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:35750 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756116AbYEWUbJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2008 16:31:09 -0400 Message-ID: <48372989.3000700@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:31:05 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andras Mantia CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: libata (pata_via) timeouts causing unusable device: the famous DRDY issue? References: <200805232201.51701.amantia@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <200805232201.51701.amantia@kde.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andras Mantia wrote: > Hi, > > since my upgrade to openSUSE 11.0, which comes with 2.6.25.4, soon > after I start using my DVD player, I get the following in the log: > > May 23 21:34:04 stein klogd: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr > 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > May 23 21:34:04 stein klogd: ata1.00: cmd > a0/01:00:00:00:08/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 2048 in > May 23 21:34:04 stein klogd: cdb 28 00 00 00 01 b3 00 00 01 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 > May 23 21:34:04 stein klogd: res > 40/00:02:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > May 23 21:34:04 stein klogd: ata1.00: status: { DRDY } DRDY == device ready, and it occurs billions of times per day during normal use. There is no "famous DRDY issue", you are simply seeing timeouts. Have you tried all of: pci=nomsi, acpi=off, or noapic? Jeff