From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Kernel SeekCompleteErrors... Different from Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.15.4 Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:36:17 -0500 Message-ID: <44021141.6000601@rtr.ca> References: <440040B4.8030808@dgreaves.com> <440083B4.3030307@rtr.ca> <4400A1BF.7020109@rtr.ca> <4400B439.8050202@dgreaves.com> <4401122A.3010908@rtr.ca> <44019E96.20804@superbug.co.uk> <4401B378.3030005@rtr.ca> <4401BB85.7070407@superbug.co.uk> <4401DF6B.9010409@rtr.ca> <20060226171307.GA9682@gallifrey> <1140975791.27539.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:57546 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbWBZUgc (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:36:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1140975791.27539.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , James Courtier-Dutton , David Greaves , Justin Piszcz , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, IDE/ATA development list , albertcc@tw.ibm.com, axboe@suse.de, htejun@gmail.com Alan Cox wrote: > > The very early SATA code didnt decode the errors from the drive fully so > could produce bogus reports. The current code decodes it and also > displays the ATA level diagnostics so should be reliable. It still is unreliable, as being discussed in another thread. libata wrongly says "medium error" any time it issues a command that the drive rejects (unsupported, invalid parameters, etc..). This is biting a few people in 2.6.16-rc*, due to the FUA stuff.