From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Mike Robak <mrobak@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libATA error message doc
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:54:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4703D75B.6070608@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b40bfd30710031039y70252a8bk898b102c993a92af@mail.gmail.com>
Mike Robak wrote:
> 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
It's pretty much all defined in the ATA or controller specifications...
Well, except for emask, which is a libata-only invention.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-03 17:39 Mike Robak
2007-10-03 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-03 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-05 19:13 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-05 20:51 ` Alan Cox
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