From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:14:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:14:19 -0400 Received: from mail.courier-mta.com ([66.92.103.29]:1200 "EHLO mail.courier-mta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:14:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: From: "Sam Varshavchik" To: "Mark H. Wood" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: disregard: Re: ide zip 100 won't mount Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:14:29 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mark H. Wood writes: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> That's pretty much what the sense codes below did indicate - media problem. > > For future reference, is there any sort of tool that will decode these > magic numbers, since the driver doesn't do it for us? It ought to cut > down on the number of posts beginning, "my IDE driver began speaking in > tongues, what is it trying to tell me?" ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/INF-8070.PDF You'll have to page through it, it's kind of scattered all over the place. This is for removable ATAPI IDE devices. I don't know how much of that is applicable to plain garden-variety IDE devices. -- Sam