Re: ata problem

Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Hi,
>     As of yesterday's -CURRENT, 2 or 3 of my computers (not all of them) are
> having a weird problem with CDRW drives:
> 
> ad0: 58644MB <Maxtor 4R060J0> [119150/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA133
> ata1-slave: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE no interrupt
> acd0: CDROM <LTN526S> at ata1-master PIO4
> acd1: CDRW <LITE-ON LTR-48246S> at ata1-slave BIOSPIO
> 
> Both computers act the same way. One of them uses an older via chipset, and the
> other uses a sis 962/963 UDMA133 controller so I'm not sure it's the controller
> that the driver is having trouble with. Both CDRW drives are LITE-ON (one of
> them is a re-labled LITE-ON but still LITE-ON) Anyway, would any other info be
> necessary?

This is a problem with the LiteOn devices, the fail to send an interrupt 
in some cases. The ATA driver knows how to work around it.

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-Søren