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).
--
Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
To email, remove "nospam" from [email protected]
Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
