> 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.
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