Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Question about identify device ATA command in vblade

2013-10-03 Thread Ed Cashin
On Oct 3, 2013, at 2:36 PM, David Leach wrote: Can someone explain why the ATA command Identify Device (0xEC) has the following test in the switch statement: case 0xec:// identify device if (p-sectors != 1 || ndp 512) return -1; Given that the ATA

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Question about identify device ATA command in vblade

2013-10-03 Thread David Leach
Ed, Well on the surface if you are doing a client side AoE driver you would look at the ATA spec and decide that all the N/A values can be just set to zero. Which is what I did but immediately got a bad arguments error from the blade server. When you look at the blade server code it does this