From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: gigabyte iRam not seen by linux Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:33:23 +0900 Message-ID: <4412FBD3.2040604@gmail.com> References: <20060310013604.1acac722.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> <4411BCB6.5080108@gmail.com> <44122FBD.9000909@tw.ibm.com> <20060311034630.4c12cf83.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> <20060311033143.GA12866@htj.dyndns.org> <20060311092013.487c1263.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> <20060311085843.GA9067@htj.dyndns.org> <311601c90603110812t1f853d2ep333a2299fbb0d6b2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.207]:57459 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751284AbWCKQdm (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:33:42 -0500 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i30so116396wxd for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:33:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <311601c90603110812t1f853d2ep333a2299fbb0d6b2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric D. Mudama" Cc: Jure Pe??ar , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, albertl@mail.com, jgarzik@pobox.com Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On 3/11/06, Tejun Heo wrote: > >>Hello, again. >> >>It's reporting 0x00 for FEATURE when it should report 0x01 (indicates >>diagnostic passed). > > > Um, do you mean the error register? Either way, yea, it would appear > that the device is reporting that it failed its own internal > diagnostics. Yeap, I did mean the error register. To deal with iRam, it seems that we just have to ignore the diagnostic code. I wonder how the diagnostic code would look like on ata_piix. -- tejun