Re: ATAPI DMA timeouts showing up in logs

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 1970-01-01 at 05:59, Dennis Grant wrote:
> Now that I've got the proper IDE driver in place (2.4.20rc4) and the master drive
> on the primary interface is running at a full ATA133, these have started showing
> up in the logs - 2 or 3 a day:

My guess is its the IDE command/DMA sequence bug that Khalid fixed in
-ac. Some drives also take a very long time on retrying blocks and that
might cause a timeout/reset too.

> This last one is the only indication that something might be amiss - the two
> instances of "invalid argument" Other than that, the drive appears to work just
> fine.

Those are ones CD-ROM's dont support