linux-kernel - Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

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Message-ID: <20070313000459.6739c3cb@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:04:59 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	Phil Kaslo <phil@...arizona.edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard:  cd drive malfunctions if internal nic
 in use.

> Is that a PATA cd-drive?  If so, then you must have hooked it up
> to the JMicron IDE controller.  That driver is just plain buggy.

It ought to be rock solid, perhaps you can send me a detailed bug report.
In fact it actually doesn't do very much at all as the controller is
smart enough to do all the hard work itself.

> I gave up on it for my own P5B-VM.  The libata version works better
> than the drivers/ide, but I gave up on it and got a SATA DVD/RW drive.

The two drive the devices identically although if there was a problem I
guess the libata one would recover better.

Would appreciate bug reports anyway so I can do more detailed analysis.

Alan
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