[paranoia] SEMI-SOLVED many scsi timeout errors

[Jack Pistachio]

Well, after reading some of the archives, I decided to
apply the same solution Ian did for the 686B Southbride. 
That is, I put the CDRW on the Promise controller.  It
worked... thanks to Ian for his posts.  I thought that
solution might apply only to older Via chipsets like the
KT133, but Via's woes with CDROMs and Linux seems to
continue.
I'm not to happy about this, seeing as how a pretty penny
was originally spent to get the best reviewed motherboard
and chipset available at the time.  It was a couple of
months before I could solve this problem.  Also, the
Promise controller is not where I would like my CDRW to be.
 There it can only be used in PIO modes since the CDRW
isn't a UDMA 100/133 drive, which are the DMA modes the
controller supports.  It also take away the space for my
RAID array.  There are other reasons too, but they are more
minor.
Now I suppose the question is: for anyone that has had
success with the via chipset, what is your setup?  Can you
get a CDROM to rip on it?  And when will there be more
support for Via, especially in the kernel?  

Why, oh why do companies refuse to support the future of
Linux when it is in their own good?

BTW, for those interested more on my setup:
Kernel 2.2.20
Debian Woody
CDParanoia 9.8

- jackp

--- Jack Pistachio <jackpistachio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I used to be able to rip cd's fine on my fairly new
> system.
>  That was when I had two cdroms: a generic 40x as master
> and HP CDWriter 8000+ as slave.  I removed the generic
> drive and gave it away.  Since then when I try to rip cds
> on the HP drive (which is the one I always used anyway
> because it was more reliable), I get many scsi timeout
> errors until the drive finally is reset.  The kernel log
> shows an interrupt error.  I may have updated my kernel
> since it was working but when I went back to the old
> kernel
> still didn't work.  I can successfully rip cds with the
> same drive and exact replica of the linux fs on an old
> pentium.
> 
> Relevant system components:
> ga7vrxp mobo w/
> via kt333 8233a southbride
> hp cdwriter connected to ide1 (hdc)
> 
> I'm using scsi emulation but as I recall, ide-cd doesn't
> work either.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Is this
> purely
> a kernel problem (i.e. via chipset problem)?
> 
> - jackp

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