From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261668AbULPP6Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:58:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261524AbULPP5j (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:57:39 -0500 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:11678 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261541AbULPPzP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:55:15 -0500 Message-ID: <41C1B018.2090903@tmr.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:56:08 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Chandler CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: ide-cd problem revisited - more brainpower needed References: <200412121334.55460.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk><200412121334.55460.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> <200412140020.18114.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200412140020.18114.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Chandler wrote: > On Sunday 12 December 2004 13:34, Alan Chandler wrote: > >>On Sunday 12 December 2004 11:39, Alan Cox wrote: >> >>>Thanks ok so it moves with the drive. I'm beginning to wonder if it is >>>just a dud drive. >> >>I do too and am almost ready to throw in the towel (and I seem to be almost >>unique in experiencing these problems) - except > > > Towel now thrown. > > ... > > >>and >>linux 2.4 (using the ide-scsi module) the drive works perfectly. > > > Drive is obviously degrading, I tried it "one more time" today with 2.4, and > it only just managed to work. It managed to finish the task, but there were > several resets and error messages very similar to the ones in 2.6. Is it? Or did the firmware "upgrade" make it worse? Can you reflash back to the original firmware and see if 2.4 works correctly? > My apologies to others time that I might have wasted, although it personally > was a good learning experience on how the kernel works. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me