From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932480AbXBJO41 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:56:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932581AbXBJO41 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:56:27 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:1912 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932480AbXBJO40 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:56:26 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pmcDOnc0Vz8O0TdRFKIFR9KbVXCidlVe6WkwieCFmVv3gxCZ3KGnGcnmwwfi8Ti+NSYsK1U/9vafUUMWiCFR/wKKsJLrRWWoF7BINOkfWAVR8hTcFVBmC2sokOT2gd9CEcIO0uQRVPTu74Lrr6EAXLMMy2pQVMmWhPo9XPt8TFo= Message-ID: <45CDDCF9.4080909@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:55:53 -0500 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keenan Pepper CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: More ICH7 PATA freezes with ata_piix References: <767314830702091348q523ba574u62efc3c0b93a4381@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <767314830702091348q523ba574u62efc3c0b93a4381@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Keenan Pepper wrote: [--snip--] > [ 1169.712000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > [ 1169.712000] ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x1e data 0 > [ 1169.712000] res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > [ 1176.712000] ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0) > [ 1199.728000] ata1: port failed to respond (30 secs, Status 0xd0) Hmm.. ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL failed with timeout. To me it seems that your TSST dvdw doesn't like being poked continuously. I'm not sure how HAL is currently poling but it seems each poll involves opening and closing thus invoking whole media revalidation and medium removal disallow/allow switching. You're not the first one reporting similar problem. Can you report it to HAL people? I'd love to talk with them. Thanks. -- tejun