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Sorry. Didn't realize those messages would be present in normal cases.

So, ide data test messages before the drive identification are normal, but after the drive identification indicate trouble?


No. These only appear before the drive identification. The important bit is, that the final few such messages should not show bit mismatches. Eg, here are the final ones from the log he actually posted:
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ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555


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Also: The ide data test messages are a hijack feature, correct? You wouldn't get that with a normal kernel?


Right. With a vanilla empeg kernel, those messages don't appear. And so on a broken system we'd just see mysterious crashes later on, without as good a clue as to what the problem is.

Cheers


Edited by mlord (03/09/2006 21:53)