RE: [2.4.21-pre7-ac1] IDE Warning when booting

Mudama, Eric (eric_mudama@maxtor.com)
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:45:34 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pau Aliagas [mailto:linuxnow@newtral.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 10:40 AM
> To: lkml; Eric Mudama
> Cc: hps@intermeta.de
> Subject: RE: [2.4.21-pre7-ac1] IDE Warning when booting
>
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/harddisks | grep -v "^#"
> USE_DMA=0 MULTIPLE_IO=16
> EIDE_32BIT=3
> LOOKAHEAD=1
> EXTRA_PARAMS="-u1"

For fun, try changing MULTIPLE_IO to 2 instead of 16, and see if the 0x5104
error still occurrs.

> How can I get this information?

At work I'd use a bus analyzer or something capable of issuing "raw" ATA
commands... however, from the /proc data that was posted, it appeared the
drive supported a maximum of 16 for its multi count, which should be fine.

That boggles me.

--eric
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