Re: ATAPI + cdwriter problem

[Alan Cox]

>  
> I had a similar experience when trying my CD writer on pdc20265 and a
> cmd649 based board. Sometimes a write goes fine, sometimes that error
> comes up and you get a coaster. Writer is an LG GCE-8160B.  It works
> fine on the VIA 686b however, except for certain speed related issues
> (audio writes at > 8x make system unresponsive, data writes ok, more
> in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101826880719379&w=2).

If you are having PDC202xx problems do try the patch Hank posted recently.
It disables the raid controllers which is something we need to discuss in
more detail to do in a better way but the rest of it is what Promise believe
fixes the other problems - and it would benefit from much testing