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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@gmail.com>
Cc: Barebox List <barebox@lists.infradead.org>,
	Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [BUG] ata: disk_ata_drive: SSD drive doesn't pass check for ata id validity
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:31:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151030073104.GZ25308@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151029160409.2ad22e14@berta>

+Cc Juergen

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 04:04:09PM +0300, Peter Mamonov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Barebox refuses to deal with OCZ-VERTEX4 ssd sata drive, because:
> 	ata1: ata id invalid
> 
> This error is triggered by the following piece of code :
> 
> static int ata_id_is_valid(const uint16_t *id)
> {
> 	if ((id[ATA_ID_FIELD_VALID] & 1) == 0) {
> 		pr_debug("Drive's ID seems invalid\n");
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 	}
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> The "id" is a sector-sized block of bytes, received after
> issuing ATA_CMD_ID_ATA command.
> 
> If I remove this check, the drive works fine.
> 
> Can someone with better knowledge of ATA standard comment on this
> issue?

Juergen, do you have an idea what this check is for? Neither U-Boot nor
the Kernel seem to ever check for bit 0 in this field.

Sascha


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-30  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-29 13:04 Peter Mamonov
2015-10-30  7:31 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2015-10-30  8:53   ` Juergen Borleis
2015-10-30 10:06     ` Peter Mamonov

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