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

Marcelo Tosatti
2004-02-27T21:59:04Z

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> 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...

OK and what about the status=0x58 errors? What are those about?