Re: [PATCH] ata.mod under qemu

[Christian Franke]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 23:04 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
> > New patch attached. Please test on the above hardware if possible.
> >     
>
> It's working fine.  (ata6) and (ata7) appear, but (ata0) and (ata1)
> doesn't.  When inserting ata.mod, I get:
>
> error: error reading ATA IDENTIFY data
> error: error reading ATA IDENTIFY data
>   

Looks like the (ata0/1) controller returns !BSY, DRQ, !ERR in the status 
register if no device is connected.
This is now detected after the bogus IDENTIFY data is read.

> That must be the "ghost devices".  While it would be nice to get rid of
> such messages, I'm fine if your patch is committed as is.
>
>   

Modified version committed, messages should no longer appear.

Thanks!

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Regards,
Christian Franke