Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270680AbTHJUih (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:38:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270682AbTHJUih (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:38:37 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:31495 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270680AbTHJUie (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:38:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:27:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Erik Andersen cc: Georg Schwarz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.21/2.4.22-rc1: IDE error message on startup In-Reply-To: <20030808224210.GA26877@codepoet.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2385 Lines: 60 Given the early nature of the test, its design was to catch devices which fail to issue an abort for unsupported command sets. This was to be a means to flag the device as possible non-compliant. It is okay to remove or delete all, as clearly early warnings about standard command sets not being supported was a silly design on my part. Making all error messages hide by far is superior than exposing a potential problem with hardware. Maybe exposing the facts of media forensics would clarify the issues; however, it is not that important. Regards, --a On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Fri Aug 08, 2003 at 10:05:08PM +0200, Georg Schwarz wrote: > > Dear Linux kernel maintainers, > > > > the following problem (aka bug?) appeared in 2.4.21 and still exists in > > 2.4.22-rc1 (kernels prior to 2.4.21 work fine): > > > > SETUP: > > various mostly older PCs (486, Pentium I) and various smaller IDE drives > > (can would be happy to more details if needed) > > > > PROBLEM: > > With Linux 2.4.21 or 2.4.22-rc1 (not with prior versions using the same > > .config however) on startup I get the following error messages for any > > connected IDE disk (but not ATAPI CR-ROM): > > > > hda: attached ide-disk driver. > > hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > > A change was made to ide-disk.c where it _always_ attempts to do > a READ_NATIVE_MAX call regardless of whether the drive supports > the host protected area feature set in the > init_idedisk_capacity() function. I submitted a patch to address > this, which is currently being reworked a bit in the 2.6 kernel > tree and will then be backported again to 2.4. > > -Erik > > -- > Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ > --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/