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Mark,

You are assuming SATA > 1.0 ??
Shadow registers are not exposed for the most part.

What is more fun is to watch CRC errors goto the controller for a retry
when the error was in the phy originally.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Mark Overby wrote:

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> I have seen some drives that R_ERR in the middle of a DMA transaction and
> then don't send the FIS to update the shadow registers in the controller.
> You could be seeing this problem, but you'd need to look a SATA bus trace to
> be sure.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hale Landis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:32 PM
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> Subject: [t13] SATA question
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> What causes a PCI bus SATA controller to stop responding in the
> middle of a command? Specifically, in the middle of a READ DMA
> command, what would cause the drive status to change to FDH or FFH
> and then cause the controller and drive(s) to ignore a Soft Reset and
> continue to return status of FFH for all reads of any ATA register?
> 
> Hale
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> *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
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