Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:39:19 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master
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To: Patrick Ale <patrick.ale@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Patrick Ale wrote:
> Something unrelated to the tests I am doing.
> 
> I found out that the libsata driver doesn't really cope or likes the
> idea that you might have a controller without a master drive
> configured.
> 
> In this case on ATA2 I have a CDROM drive, connected as slave.
> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x177
> ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x177
> ata2.01: ATAPI, max UDMA/66
> ata2.01: configured for UDMA/66

Having a single drive on the channel configured as slave is not really a 
legal configuration. (I believe the ATA standards say that it's 
something that a host controller/driver/OS is allowed to support, but it 
is not required to.) A single drive should always be set to master (and 
connected to the end of the cable and not the middle, by the way).

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