> According to information I have received, some ATA (and possibly ATAPI?) > devices intentionally return some data in these cases. In the case of > certain ATA devices, this returned data permits inspection of the > incorrected data. News to me. ATA like ST-506/ST-412 exposes error data on I/O READ/WRITE via the READ_BUFFER functionality but its basically useless without a lot of knowledge of the drive on anything post ST-412 era. Got any references ? The other possibility is to whine but accept it happens - on the other hand being lax about HSM errors is asking for corruption and it seems to be unique to this tape device. (and someone please don't tell me early pre ATAPI standard devices are trying to return the sense data in this way or I'll be ill) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
