To: Eric Mudama <edmudama@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Crashed Drive, libata wedges when trying to recover data
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From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
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Date: 03 Sep 2004 13:35:08 -0400
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Eric Mudama <edmudama@gmail.com> writes:

> Today's (and tomorrow's) generation of SATA drives will never ever
> generate a 0x59 status... the error and DRQ bits become mutually
> exclusive.  

This is a very recent Maxtor drive, a 7Y250M0. It's not the new drives that
were recently announced but I think it's the most recent you can find in
stores.

-- 
greg

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