> The drive is clearly broken. Adding blacklist to drivers/ide/ide-dma.c > for this model ("CD-912E/ATK") fixes this problem.
That may be the case but knowing if th drive is the problem is more tricky. Firstly try it on a different controller Secondly check for other firmware revisions Thirdly blacklist only your firmware rev if there are others > hdc: DMA disabled > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide-iops.c:949! > invalid operand: 0000 [#1] That is an IDE layer bug not a drive incompatibility. It may be one triggered the other but until the BUG the kernel was correctly behaving and had just turned off DMA anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]