SATA DVD drive no longer works

[Diego Depaoli]

2009/4/22 Ian Freislich <ianf at clue.co.za>:
> I have a DVD drive that was in the past detected as:
>
> <TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F SB00>
>
> It's been a long time since I tried to use it because it's only
> been able to play about 1/10 of my DVD colloction.  It's now with
> a recent (>4 days old CURRENT) not even detected.
>
> My ATA hardware is detected as follows:
>
> atapci1: <nVidia nForce MCP67 SATA300 controller> port 0xc480-0xc487,0xc400-0xc403,0xc080-0xc087,0xc000-0xc003,0xbc00-0xbc0f mem 0xfe9f6000-0xfe9f7fff irq 22 at device 9.0 on pci0
> atapci1: [ITHREAD]
> atapci1: AHCI Version 01.10 controller with 4 ports PM supported
> ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
> If I 'atacontrol reinit ata2' (where the drive is connected) it
> takes much less time than the other controlers which have nothing
> on them, but it still turns up no hardware:
>
> [brane] /var/db/pkg # time atacontrol reinit ata2
> Master:      no device present
> Slave:       no device present
same here with AMD780G chipset.

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Diego Depaoli