From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757819AbXJCRjq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:39:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754145AbXJCRjj (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:39:39 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.191]:8165 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754093AbXJCRjj (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:39:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=BAyQ5RbBhAhGslM2nTtOVz1BX7w1uuF4LA0M7FjtqLs1gJLjfZKs+oMoxKhigluyQsK2DXJIURhZTv7F9VWrSA/efo8ZQJyXcKiat4aXWDkO8ySIxy88vyhNF4tNd+QjUvWQIK1i+snPgslyRV9wrwht5PBIHAu6IQfXtXtD4D0= Message-ID: <2b40bfd30710031039y70252a8bk898b102c993a92af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:39:34 -0700 From: "Mike Robak" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: libATA error message doc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Does a doc exist that provides a detailed description of the different errors that could be produced by libata and its associated drivers? The libATA developer's guide provides a very good general description of the types of messages, but I'm looking for more detail. For example I got this error message last week: Sep 27 17:29:26 server kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x1 Sep 27 17:29:26 server kernel: ata2.00: (irq_stat 0x40000001) Sep 27 17:29:26 server kernel: ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error) I'd like to know what the following items means? (irq_stat 0x40000001) tag 0 cmd 0xb0 emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 Can anybody help? Thanks, -Mike