From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Scholz Subject: HPA and failed opcode was: 0x37 ? Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:02:43 +0100 Message-ID: <45BF5003.3000503@imc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.imc-berlin.de ([217.110.46.186]:4517 "EHLO mail.imc-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965511AbXA3ObI (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:31:08 -0500 Received: from mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de (mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de [10.0.0.19]) by mail.imc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B4C2F02C for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:57:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B5410946 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:02:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.0.2.10] (scholz.berlin.imc-berlin.de [10.0.2.10]) by mailserver.berlin.imc-berlin.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D102A071 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:02:43 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hi all, I get the following lines when starting my ide driver: Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of ALTSTATUS(0xff) hda: ST940813AM, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0xc3866000-0xc3866007,0xc3866010 on irq 30 hda: max request size: 1024KiB hda: Host Protected Area detected. current capacity is 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) native capacity is 185074430006016 sectors (94758108163 MB) hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: 0x37 hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63 hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 My quetsions are: 1. what's that 185074430006016 sectors native capacity about? 2. Opcode 0x37 seems to be WIN_SET_MAX_EXT. What does it mean if it fails? Thanks a million. (I am uisng linux 2.6.14 on an embedded ARM9 system.) Steven