Re: CDROM problems in fc3 (was Re: What I hope is not in FC3

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:39:11PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
> The short and sweet is that CDs fail to mount and the message (over and 
> over again) is:
> 
> kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> kernel: hdc: irq timeout: error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0x0d
> kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
> kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete

Its interesting that ide-scsi works here and ide-cd doesn't.

> advised to use ide-cd instead.  But that doesn't work.  And I've read 
> people saying that cd writing is bad with ide-scsi.

Its not "bad", its just an uglier interface.

> hdc: _NEC DVD+RW ND-5100A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

You might want to also add a bug to bugzilla.kernel.org for this, and
let Jens Axboe/Bartlomiej know too - its an interesting bug and one I've
not seen elsewhere.

The other "need ide-scsi" cases are multichangers and we understand that
fine