I have a lot of ATA link errors in my dmesg, ; ---- BEGIN ---- [318539.569748] ata2: exception Emask 0x73 SAct 0x0 SErr 0xffffffff action 0xe frozen [318539.569751] ata2: irq_stat 0xffffffff, unknown FIS 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000, host bus [318539.569756] ata2: SError: { RecovData RecovComm UnrecovData Persist Proto HostInt PHYRdyChg PHYInt CommWake 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS DevExch } [318539.569765] ata2: hard resetting link [318541.100038] ata1: failed to resume link (SControl FFFFFFFF) ;---- END ----
... It goes on for a very long time, these errors are actually all I can see in my dmesg. I can't mount ISO's, I think this is because my optical drive is not supported (well, the IDE interface must be using a weird chipset) My kernel is 2.6.32-5-amd64. Am I right in thinking this implies my optical drive is not supported? My current optical drive has an IDE interface, using this Ultra DMA stuff on an Abit AB9 motherboard. I thought I should get a SATA drive, does this seem reasonable (my SATA disk drives work flawlessly with the SATA interface)? Thank you for your time, Horace. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cagvw+m3me0d2u0f0t5zlefwsthbui5dyyot-pgquz6qf_mj...@mail.gmail.com