Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> VMware ich4 emulation incorrectly sets DMA_ERR on TF error.  Ignore
>> it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> hrm.  IIRC, the old-IDE code just sorta ignores this, and in the
> original libata I followed old-IDE's habit of acking events with
> 
>     write-to-dma-status-register(err | intr)
> 
> so what part of libata-core cares about this distinction?  what is the
> specific behavior from the original problem report that this solves?

Well, basically, some versions of vmware sets DMA_ERR on CHECK_SENSE, so
cdroms get reset when they try to report sense data.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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