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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: Scary Intel SATA problem: "frozen"
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:55:04 +0300
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To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
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Hello.

Mark Lord wrote:

> Bit #4, when actually implemented, is a rotational seek indicator,
> which can be used for timing purposes.

    Hm, I thought it was DSC (drive seek complete) set by the SEEK command 
completion, and it's always implemented. Didn't you mean IDX (bit 1, IIRC)?

> But when BUSY (bit #7) is set, the rest are generally nonsense.

    Indeed...

WBR, Sergei