Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> writes:

> Status 0x61 means that the bus-master engine is still active. This means
> the transfert is not done.
> I would suspect some electrical problem on the IDE bus which makes the
> data transfer between HD and controller hang (some kind of deadlock).
> Did you try another cable ? Also make sure there is something at both end
> of the cable, and that the controller is really at one end.

I would too, but I get the _same_ thing with -current on my laptop.

It switches from one DMA 2 to DMA 1, then to PIO mode, and after that
all is well.

--Michael