-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-9-em64t-p4-smp Version: 2.6.11-2 Severity: grave
while booting the message "hdb: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)" repeats several times and the system hangs for some seconds. After booting and running some applications the same message repeats and linux hangs. It makes all newer kernels unusable with my hardware. On the bottom of this mail you'll find an extract of /var/log/syslog showing this error. My system is a P4 630 with em64t, ASUS P5GD2 Premium board (ICH6 chipset), 250GB Seagate SATA harddisk and nvidia 6600GT PCIe graphic card. I'm running debian SID for amd64. I've had these bugs in self compiled linux kernels 2.6.11.8, 2.6.12rc4 and the default debian kernel 2.6.11-9-em64t-p4-smp. The default debian kernel 2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp on debian for amd64 seems to be the only one that I can use. There the error does not occur and so the system does not hang. So it has to be a broken module in a newer kernel than 2.6.8 that is responsible for this error. Here are some bootmessages from /var/log/syslog: ... ICH6: chipset revision 3 ICH6: 100%% native mode on irq 18 ide0: BM-DMA at 0x5800-0x5807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0x5808-0x580f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: IC35L060AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive hdb: SONY CD-RW CRX210E1, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x7000-0x7007,0x6802 on irq 18 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide2... Probing IDE interface ide3... Probing IDE interface ide4... Probing IDE interface ide5... hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: 120103200 sectors (61492 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hdb: packet command error: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed. ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: drive not ready for command hdb: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) last message repeated 37 times irq 18: nobody cared! Call Trace: <IRQ> <ffffffff80151c54>{__report_bad_irq+48} <ffffffff80151d18>{note_interrupt+91} <ffffffff801516d3>{__do_IRQ+257} <ffffffff80110469>{do_IRQ+67} <ffffffff8010ddc1>{ret_from_intr+0} <EOI> <ffffffff8010dee9>{retint_kernel+38} <ffffffff8010bb2c>{mwait_idle+94} <ffffffff8010bab0>{cpu_idle+71} <ffffffff80670876>{start_kernel+445} <ffffffff8067022c>{x86_64_start_kernel+320} handlers: [<ffffffff80308031>] (ide_intr+0x0/0x17a) Disabling IRQ #18 ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: DMA disabled hdb: ATAPI reset complete hdb: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) last message repeated 52 times Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 hdb: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01) last message repeated 3 times ... Regards, Alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCjjs5lLqZutoTiOMRAhKQAJ0ZtqYkY5wv3z7oz6E6KVUTlU7wrgCaA3HF OX2mQjUjqlwBVjS1ROLfxw4= =5HiC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]