On 7/21/2011 6:28 AM, Horace Dynamite wrote:
> I have a lot of ATA link errors in my dmesg,
> ; ---- BEGIN ----
> [318539.569748] ata2: exception Emask 0x73 SAct 0x0 SErr 0xffffffff
> action 0xe frozen
> [318539.569751] ata2: irq_stat 0xffffffff, unknown FIS 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000000, host bus
> [318539.569756] ata2: SError: { RecovData RecovComm UnrecovData
> Persist Proto HostInt PHYRdyChg PHYInt CommWake 10B8B Dispar BadCRC
> Handshk LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS DevExch }
> [318539.569765] ata2: hard resetting link
> [318541.100038] ata1: failed to resume link (SControl FFFFFFFF)
> ;---- END ----
>
> ... It goes on for a very long time, these errors are actually all I
> can see in my dmesg.
>
> I can't mount ISO's, I think this is because my optical drive is not
> supported (well, the IDE interface must be using a weird chipset)
>
> My kernel is 2.6.32-5-amd64.
>
> Am I right in thinking this implies my optical drive is not supported?
> My current optical drive has an IDE interface, using this Ultra DMA
> stuff on an Abit AB9 motherboard. I thought I should get a SATA drive,
> does this seem reasonable (my SATA disk drives work flawlessly with
> the SATA interface)?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Horace.
>
>
Could you provide the make/model of the optical drive in question as
well as the output of lspci?
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