Bryan J. Smith wrote: >- Multiple ATA devices on a channel conflicting > > Right, I forgot this one. Check if you don't have an old cd-drive on the same IDE cable. >- Hdparm optimizing the ATA channel and IDE disk incorrectly > > Did you tweak this? >- Many, many others > >But in every case I had, when the drive _had_ worked prior >without issue, it was a kernel upgrade and that ATA driver. >As I mentioned before, there have been many documented cases >of this, as well as the politics of the ATA code in the >kernel (around 2.4.18-19 IIRC). > > > >