Re: libata (pata_via) timeouts causing unusable device: the famous DRDY issue?

Jeff Garzik
2008-05-23T20:31:17Z

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