Re: Do I own an unsupported optical IDE drive?
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:28:07 +0100, 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 ----
Uff, have you tried with another IDE cable? Those seem hardware errors.
(...)
> 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)?
There are not unsupported IDE optical devices. There can be problems with
the firmware with some of these units (I remember about LG devices that
came with the "bluebirds" utility embedded on it that caused problems in
linux systems) but as per the above errors I would think it's a kind of
hardware related issue (either change the IDE cable with a new one and/or
remove the optical unit to use it with an external enclosure to connect
it via USB port. A failure in the IDE port of the board is also a
possibility besides a problem with the unit itself).
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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