Re: [PARPORT] Help with large disk


grant@torque.net
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:35:46 -0500 (EST)


> It seems to work, what exactly does the TMO error mean?
>
> paride: version 1.02 installed
> paride: epat registered as protocol 0
> pd: pd version 1.04s, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
> pda: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x278, mode 3 (EPP-8), delay 1
> pda: Maxtor 91360D8, master, 26563824 blocks [12970M], (26353/16/63), fixed media
> pda:pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x10000 = TMO
> pda1

It's supposed to mean the command timed out. But, in this case, I think
it is actually a ghost timeout - the code that detects the timeout is
not quite right. I'll fix it, but in the meantime you can safely ignore
it - the ERR bit is not set, so the drive is happy.

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