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

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-27T23:57:33Z

On Friday 27 of February 2004 23:51, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 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?

These are from ide_wait_stat(). It looks like we are expecting drive to be
idle but drive is ready to receive data. There should be another error
message in logs (unless error comes from ide-cd.c) telling more what was
the source of an error.

Bartlomiej