ATAPICAM?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:23:44 -0600
Harry Coin <harrycoin at qconline.com> wrote:

> Gary Jennejohn <garyj at jennejohn.org wrote:
> 
>  >What's with ATAPICAM?
> 
> I'm not sure what the issue is with the new ata drivers, but I know 
> Atapicam in the context of USB memory chip solid state disk readers
> and an  ata DVD burner hangs the bootup process with an interrupt
> storm right after  the hard disks are enumerated and just before the
> SMP message announcing  the launch of the second processor would
> have been displayed.
> 
> I hope the new attention due to the updated ata drivers fixes it, as
> the  system just hangs.  It's an unusable showstopper on all 5.x. 
> Same system  works with the various Redmond, WA based commercial
> products.
> 
> Comment atapicam out of the kernel, all is well.

Works fine with my DVD burner here. There is a issue with some
chipsets, but not all. Last I checked, many months ago, it acted wierd
on my promise card. No problems with it and my nforce chipset.