Re: undecoded slave?

[tabris <tabris@tabris.net>]

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On Thursday 23 September 2004 9:41 pm, Eric Mudama wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:09:13 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
>
> <bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 September 2004 22:30, tabris wrote:
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> > > On Thursday 23 September 2004 7:14 am, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
wrote:
> > > > [ use linux-ide@vger.kernel.org for ATA stuff ]
> > > >
> > > > On Thursday 23 September 2004 05:57, tabris wrote:
> > > > > Probing IDE interface ide3...
> > > > > hdg: Maxtor 4D060H3, ATA DISK drive
> > > > > hdh: Maxtor 4D060H3, ATA DISK drive
> > > > > ide-probe: ignoring undecoded slave
> > > > >
> > > > > Booted 2.6.9-rc2-mm2, and I no longer have an hdh. the error
> > > > > above seems to be the only [stated] reason why.
> > > >
> > > > Please send hdparm -I output for both drives.
> > >
> > > As you can see, both drives are the same brand/size/model.
> > > Both are connected to the PDC20265 on my ASUS A7V266-E
> > > motherboard.
> > >
> > > /dev/hdg:
> > >
> > > ATA device, with non-removable media
> > >         Model Number:       Maxtor 4D060H3
> > >         Serial Number:      D3000000
> > >         Firmware Revision:  DAK019K0
> >
> > Thanks.
> > It seems we will need to add this Serial Number to "undecoded
> > slave" fixup.
> >
> > Please also send /proc/ide/hd?/identify to exclude kernel/hdparm
> > parsing bug.
>
> I'm confused, and I think something else must be going on... to have
> 2 different drives, with two completely different ASICs in them (and
> therefore significantly different object code), have identical
> corruption of the same 6 bytes of their configuration block is just
> not likely.  I'm pretty sure they don't even have the same utility
> zone layout.
>
> Is that how the drive IDs when connected via other controllers, in
> another system, etc?
	I'd have to get back to you on that, as I had no intention of taking my 
machine down for such a purpose. But if you truly would need this info, 
it could be provided within a day or two.
>
> hrm...
>
> eric
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