Re: RFC (patch below) Re: ide drive problem?

[Andre Hedrick]

This is an error that I am considering removing form the user's view.
For the very fact/reason you are pointing out; however, it becomse
more painful when performing error sorting.

On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Christian [iso-8859-1] Bornträger wrote:

> Hi List, Hi Andre,
> 
> as Mark Hahn made a FAQ entry for the  
> 
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> 
> message, I think we should point all users to this FAQ. I saw this message
> and questions about it very often in this list, so we should help the users 
> to find a fast solution. You know, only a few people read a manual, even in 
> error case.
> 
> Now the output looks like:
> 
> hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> 
> For further Informations please check: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s13-3
> 
> 
> 
> This patch applies correct for 2.4.9ac14 and 2.4.10
> 
> diff -r -u linux/drivers/ide/ide.c linux-new/drivers/ide/ide.c
> --- linux/drivers/ide/ide.c     Fri Sep 28 17:36:54 2001
> +++ linux-new/drivers/ide/ide.c Sat Sep 29 17:03:36 2001
> @@ -935,6 +935,9 @@
>                                         printk(", sector=%ld", HWGROUP(drive)->rq->sector);
>                         }
>                 }
> +               if ((stat & READY_STAT) && (stat & SEEK_STAT) && (stat & ERR_STAT)
> +                && (err & ABRT_ERR) && (err & ICRC_ERR))
> +                       printk("\nFor further Informations please check: http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s13-3\n");
>  #endif /* FANCY_STATUS_DUMPS */
>                 printk("\n");
>         }
> 
> 
> greetings
> 
> Christian Bornträger

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Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
CTO ASL, Inc.
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