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Martin [Visitor] — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:10:25 +0000

I re-checked my board after your post and you're correct. I don't have a JMicron either, I guess I had that on board the ASrock board that I used before I had to send it back (mainboard was crap and after 2 weeks, it was garbage) so that now I have the K9N Neo-F by MSI, which, indeed, only has 4 SATA by Nvidia. Damn.
So let's hope the Bug Report gets somewhere.. I also keep thinking - the breakage must've happened between 2.24-gentoo-r5 (or 4) and -r8, right? As I only use my drive for ripping my Audio CDs every once in a while (e.g. have new CDs => need to put on HD) I am unsure when exactly things broke.
Also, I can't put my finger on the "bad guy", since you had the problems with an IDE drive, whereas I had the same issues with an SATA drive, it doesn't seem to be the standard nvidia SATA driver - and I don't use the PATA driver, naturally... I'm confused atm..

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:48:57 +0000

@Martin:

My chipset predates yours by a bit -- mine is for an AMD system, and as far as I know, that JMicron PATA/SATA controller is only manufactured for Intel-based systems. I only have nVidia SATA and IDE controllers, no secondary JMicron.

My motherboard dates back to the glory days of 2006, when AMD processors combined with nVidia chipsets to make the best damn platforms, period. It predates the Core/Core2 introduction by a few months, and those brought in the weird JMicron controllers.

So unless I want to spend more money by buying a PCIe SATA card with a different chipset, and plugging my drives into that, I'm outta luck until the kernel code gets fixed. And the application code. Bother.

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Martin [Visitor] — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:32:57 +0000

Hey chap... I'm experiencing exactly the same problems with my nvidia chipset and SATA Samsung DVD burner...
Let's hope someone gets that thing to work. I wonder, have you tried using the drive via another SATA Controller? IIRC, my board has nvidia as well as a JMicron Controller on board - which should be applicable to most Nvidia boards (?), so if it's really a kernel issue (like i suspected as well), we might have a chance by switching controllers. Let me know whether or not you tried that and whether the JMicron PATA driver in kernel works and is as fast as the nvidia driver used to be ;)
I'll keep my fingers crossed!