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Subject: Re: PATCH: [2.4.21-pre3] IDE error recovery
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Ross Biro wrote:

>
> One of the drives that has trouble claims ATA-2 through ATA-6, which 
> is interesting,  This means this device claims to support ATA-5, hence 
> we should be able to interpret the bits in the Identify device 
> according to ATA-5 which means it supports ATA-2 which it clearly does 
> not.   Only 1 of the 3 different drives I've looked at gets it right 
> and does not claim ATA-2 support when it does not support it.  I'll 
> drop an email to a couple of manufacturers and let them know their 
> drives have a problem.

I've just checked the latest drives from 4 different manufacturers.  3 
of them claim support for ATA-2 through ATA-6 and all of them have 
trouble with IDLEIMMEDIATE sent as part of the error recovery.  I've 
already sent an email to 2 of the vendors and I have a meeting already 
scheduled with the third tomorrow.

    Ross