Re: Sending a pre8 bug report.

Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:28:49 -0800


Forwarded from a friend, who doesn't keep up with the mailing list.

Art Walker wrote:
>
> Tom - Is there anywhere I can send a bug report for Linux 2.2.0-pre8
> without subscribing to the "linux-kernel" mailing list (which I'm
> reluctant to do because of message volume)?
>
> The bug:
> System is a brand new Dell Dimension XPS R450 (P-II/450MHZ,
> 128MB RAM, 8GB IDE disk, Internal IDE Zip drive). During
> boot, I get the following errors for the Zip drive (which
> is set as the slave device on the secondary IDE controller
> (i.e. /dev/hdd):
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28C, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: Maxtor 90845D4, 8063MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA
> hdc: ATAPI 32X CDROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
> hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: packet command error: error=0x50
> ATAPI device hdd:
> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
> Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00)
> The failed "Mode Sense" packet command was:
> "5a 00 2a 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 "
>
> IDE Floppy support has been compiled into the kernel. Under pre7 and
> earlier, I get the following messages:
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28C, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: Maxtor 90845D4, 8063MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA
> hdc: ATAPI 32X CDROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.51
> hdd: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
> hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
>
> (Also, in both cases I should point out that there is a disk in the
> drive during boot. If I boot pre8 without a disk present, I still
> get the same errors.)
>
> - Art
>

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