Re: Kernel SeekCompleteErrors... Different from Re: LibPATA codeissues / 2.6.15.4

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Feb 27 2006 - 06:42:56 EST


On Sul, 2006-02-26 at 15:36 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> It still is unreliable, as being discussed in another thread.
>
> libata wrongly says "medium error" any time it issues a command
> that the drive rejects (unsupported, invalid parameters, etc..).

It seems to still get a single case wrong. But it does the report the
ATA state correctly still.

> This is biting a few people in 2.6.16-rc*, due to the FUA stuff.

It is driven by a table in

libata-scsi.c:ata_to_sense_error()

so if you can figure out the wrong entry and tweak the table that would
be great

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