[paranoia] SEMI-SOLVED many scsi timeout errors

[David Balazic]

Jack Pistachio wrote:
> 
> 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?

Did you contact your linux vendor about this problem ?
Or linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org ?

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

Next time buy from a linux friendly vendor :-)

> 
> 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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