Re: undecoded slave?

[Eric Mudama <edmudama@gmail.com>]

No rush.

I'd just like to see those drives ID'd via a different interface.

--eric


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:26:08 -0400, tabris <tabris@tabris.net> wrote:
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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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> tabris
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