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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: hda: task_no_data_intr
To: john@grabjohn.com (John Bradford)
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:42:46 -0500 (EST)
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> > hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> 
> I think that they are diagnostic messages that are a result of an old
> disk not supporting some new commands that are being send to it.  I

They are.

> thought this was done silently in the 2.4.x series - I see it on some
> really old, (100 MB) disks running 2.5.x

Some of them were not done on 2.4 before at all.

Alan
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