Re: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64 [2.5.69]

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, May 14 2003, Mudama, Eric wrote:
> 0x5104 is a different can of worms from the other stuff you guys were
> reporting.
> 
> 5104 (status register = 0x51, error register 0x04) is the all-encompassing
> "command abort" which is what the drive does any time you issue a command
> with bad parameters, an invalid (immoral?) command, or some of the security
> stuff out of sequence.  Most commonly it is seen attempting to enable
> features on a drive that doesn't support them.

Which reminds me that it has always annoyed me that Linux doesn't print
the failed command. Just leaves a lot of guess work... I'll try and
remedy that.

-- 
Jens Axboe