Re: libsata doesn't like bus without master

["Patrick Ale" <patrick.ale@gmail.com>]

On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Patrick Ale wrote:
> > On 2/11/07, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >> Patrick Ale wrote:
> Then in that case you should set the remaining drive as master. That's
> just the way PATA is. A lot of BIOSes won't even detect a drive that's
> set as slave with no master present.

Yea, I guess you're right. For me it isnt a problem, This error
message will disappear for me anyway, since I am going to re-add the
drive now, like I said yesterday, I am re-adding stuff one by one, to
isolate problems.

I can just imagine that switching a jumper might not be as easy for
everybody, especialy when they bought special front-loading harddisk
bays for their disks and all, for the very reason of not having to
open the case.

> Yeah, that's a better point. It's not really complaining, but we could
> probably have a better way of suppressing that message. I think it's
> largely there so that we can debug issues with drives not being detected
> when they should.

It's not like it is causing any problems, nothing hangs or slows down
at boot time, its just something I came across when checking my dmesg
and wanted to inform the list so I could see if this was normal
behaviour or not :)


Patrick