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My apologies for not responding sooner, this mail got missed in my inbox. The drive(s) in question respond with a properly formatted, albeit wrong, ATA signature. Sector Count = 1 LBA Low = 1 LBA Mid = 0 LBA Hi = 0 Dev/Head was zeroed before x90 was initiated. I'm reasonably certain that BSY and DRQ were 0 at the time. I'll put it through the analyzer again to be certain. -----Original Message----- From: Pat LaVarre [mailto:LAVARRE@;iomega.com] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [t13] Execute diagnostics This message is from the T13 list server. Can you say specifically how incorrect/incomplete the signature you are seeing is? I remember hearing in particular that Phoenix Bios often writes x90 ExecuteDeviceDiagnostic to the x1F7 Command register, so I wonder how tolerant those hosts would be of an Atapi device that did not sign at least x1F5:1F4 Cylinder = xEB:14. I'd say the host "should" try and zero the x1F6 & x10 DEV bit beforehand, at least if x3F6 & x88 BSY and DRQ were clear. Otherwise, by design, the host and the one or two attached devices race to decide when everyone will agree that DEV has been implicitly zeroed. When BSY|DRQ are set, how the host "should" prepare to write x90 is less clear, since writing x1F6 then is also rude, so then we have to balance rudenesses. Pat LaVarre -----Original Message----- From: Mark Overby [mailto:MOverby@;nvidia.com] Sent: Thu 10/24/2002 4:12 PM To: 'Harlan Andrews'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Subject: RE: [t13] Execute diagnostics This message is from the T13 list server. Master device, only device on channel. -----Original Message----- From: Harlan Andrews [mailto:handrews@;apple.com] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:55 PM To: Mark Overby; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [t13] Execute diagnostics Are you asking about the Master device, or a "Shadowed" slave device ? >Is it common that ATAPI devices do not put the correct signature into the >registers after completing to indicate they are ATAPI devices? > >
