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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:58:51 -0500
From: "Keenan Pepper" <keenanpepper@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Timeouts on ICH7 PATA drive with ata_piix; ide_generic worksperfectly
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Tejun Heo wrote:
> * Does putting in a readable CD or DVD make any difference?

Yes, I ran for an hour with an audio CD in the drive and there were no timeouts.

> * Does the problem occur in single mode where no HAL or whatever is running?

No, there were no timeouts in single mode even without a CD in the drive.

> Auch, scrap the last paragraph. You actually did. Sorry about that. ;-)

Well, partly my fault for letting Gmail give it the wrong MIME type.
Should have made the filenames end in .txt.

> I see your controller is ICH7 and the errors are over ten minutes apart.
> It really seems that HAL, smartd, hddtemp or whatever is poking the dvd
> writer and it isn't happy about it. In addition to the above questions,
> you can read cd/dvd's using the drive, right?

Yes, the optical drive itself works great; I can even burn DVDs.

Keenan
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