Re: Errors on 2th ide channel of promise ultra100 tx2

Alan Cox
2004-02-27T19:06:31Z

On Gwe, 2004-02-27 at 19:30, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Haven't got a clue about these "status=0x51" and "error=0x04". Anyone?
> >
> > Basically, the errors mean what they say - the drive is in an error
> > state, (received an unrecognised command), but is ready for further
> > operation.
>
> Received an unrecognised command from the kernel? What can cause that?

Our early setup/probing code in 2.4.x at least may send stuff that very
very old disks don't understand. Its arguably a bug in the ident parsing
but it shouldnt ever be harmful