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

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-27T20:07:51Z

On Friday 27 of February 2004 20:01, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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

ide-disk.c sends WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX_{EXT} without checking
if HPA feature set is supported, this is fixed in 2.6.x for a long time.

We need 2.4<->2.6 IDE sync monkey... a really smart one...

Cheers,
Bartlomiej