Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Phil Kaslo
Hello, I have a new machine, Asus motherboard, in which the cd drive malfunctions if the internal nic on the mb (RealTek RTL8168b/8111b) is actively in use. The cd drive, on ide2, is, as per dmesg, a Sony: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio hde: SONY DVD RW AW-Q1

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Lord
Phil Kaslo wrote: Hello, I have a new machine, Asus motherboard, in which the cd drive malfunctions if the internal nic on the mb (RealTek RTL8168b/8111b) is actively in use. The cd drive, on ide2, is, as per dmesg, a Sony: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio hd

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Is that a PATA cd-drive? If so, then you must have hooked it up > to the JMicron IDE controller. That driver is just plain buggy. It ought to be rock solid, perhaps you can send me a detailed bug report. In fact it actually doesn't do very much at all as the controller is smart enough to do al

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Phil Kaslo
It is a pata cd drive, attached to the JMicron controller. I'll look into whether the usb ports power off on shutdown. Thanks, Phil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:35:10PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Is that a PATA cd-drive? If so, then you must have hooked it up > to the JMicron IDE controller. That driver is just plain buggy. > > I gave up on it for my own P5B-VM. The libata version works better > than the drivers/ide, but I gav

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-13 Thread Mark Lord
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:35:10PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:> Off topic: do your USB ports power off when the system shuts down? Mine don't -- the +5V continues on them.. I'd love a tip on how to turn them off completely at shutdown. Most Asus boards have jumpers for the USB ports to select be

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-13 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:23:06PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > That's nice. > > But the P5B-VM board does not have any such jumper for USB, > nor does it have any obvious combination of BIOS-setup options > to accomplish it. Well it could only be done by hardware. The P5B has those jumpers. I fig