On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:55:28AM -0700, Myles Watson wrote: > SeaBIOS won't work with SimNOW unless you make the error checking in > ata.c less strict. > > This is the message you get: > ata_transfer : no sectors left (status 00000008) > > I reported it to the SimNOW team since it seems like they're not > following the spec, but it's been a long time and the bug is still > there. To get past it: > dprintf(6, "ata_transfer : no sectors left (status %02x)\n", status); > + if (status != 0x8) > return -7;
Yeah, I've run into this too. It looks like the SimNOW CDROM doesn't clear the DRQ bit - even though the spec definitely says it must be cleared. I make the same change locally (just warn and not abort the transfer) when I test with SimNOW. -Kevin -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
