Hi All,
Been a while since I've actually asked a question but I'm stuck!
I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 8 which ran perfectly fine for a couple of months but then suddenly started giving me trouble.
My DVD writer is a Pioneer DVR-212. I've been using this drive for a while now mostly with Core 7 with no dramas at all. When I upgraded to Core 8, as I said above, it worked fine for a little while but all of a sudden it stopped working, must have been something I did but I've got no idea what!
I also have an extra non-system hard drive in the same PC with several partitions on it for general storage that I mount manually when ever I need it. At about the same time that the DVD drive stopped working the system started mounting all the partitions on this drive automatically at boot, creating dir's automatically in /media where these partitions get mounted to. I have no idea why this started to happen! I only want these partitions mounted when I need them. I've looked everywhere I know but I just can't find how to disable this!
Below is the output from "dmesg | grep ata1" (ata1 is the DVD drive) & a brief description of my hardware. Most of the dmesg output is also displayed at boot just before init starts & causes about a 5 minuet delay before the rest of the system boots, obviously this really sucks!
I've done a fair bit of Googling but haven't been able to find the answer to either of these issues.
I hope some of you Linux Geniuses out there can help me!
Motherboard : ASUS P5W DH Deluxe
DVD Drive : Pioneer DVR-212
System Hard Drives : 2 x Western Digital WDC WD360GD in RAID 0 (striping)
Non-System Hard Drive : Western Digital WDC WD2000JD
"dmesg | grep ata1" Output :
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[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | grep ata1
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf8836900 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 218
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATAPI: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-212, 1.21, max UDMA/66
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/66:PIO3
ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
ata1.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
ata1.00: disabled
ata1: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4)
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata1: EH complete
ata10: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001ffa8 irq 15
