Hello, I've run into a problem while using the follwing different drives: IBM-DTTA-351010 and IBM-DJNA-351520. The first one is a UDMA33 drive and the second one seems to be a UDMA66 capable drive, UDMA4. I have attached a "hdparm -i" of both drives at the end of the mail. Both drives are connected to the same IDE channel on a VIA686A board with a 80pin IDE cable. When I try to access the UDMA33 drive I get: Mar 2 16:08:30 kiza kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Mar 2 16:08:41 kiza kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA Mar 2 16:08:41 kiza kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Mar 2 16:08:51 kiza kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA Mar 2 16:08:51 kiza kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Mar 2 16:09:01 kiza kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA Mar 2 16:09:01 kiza kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Mar 2 16:09:01 kiza kernel: hda: DMA disabled Mar 2 16:09:01 kiza kernel: hdb: DMA disabled Mar 2 16:09:01 kiza kernel: ide0: reset: success and the system continues to work with DMA disabled. If I use a 40pin cable to connect the drives there are no problems. If I try to set -X66 with hdparm for the UDMA66 disk (that should set UDMA33 mode, right?) and use the 80 pin cable the problem is not solved. The problem seems to be the 80 pin cable. Can't the drives operate in different modes independently? Setting a slower transfer mode with hdparm does not work. Can it be set otherwise? With a kernel parameter? I'm using 2.2.18 with the IDE driver that came with it. Is this maybe a problem that was solved in 2.4? Or is it just a theoretical "that will not work" problem? :) Thanks for any help. Oliver Output of hdparm -i for both drives. Both are connected with a 40pin cable this time: Model=IBM-DTTA-351010, FwRev=T56OA73A, SerialNo=WF0KFTR8113 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=466kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=19807200 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 Model=IBM-DJNA-351520, FwRev=J56OA30K, SerialNo=G80GLW69191 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=430kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=30033360 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 -- Oliver Feiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/pgpkey PGP key ID: 0x561D4FD2 http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/