Re: [PATCH] Enable writing to ATA devices, fix several bugs

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting Marco Gerards <address@hidden>:

> > I cannot get the ata module to recognize the hard drive on my test
> > machine, so more work is needed to test it on the real hardware.
>
> Right, this needs more work.  I will have another look at ATA soon :-)

That would be great!

> > If you check Linux include/linux/ata.h, 1 is ATA_ERR, and we really need
> > ata_ok(), which checks multiple flags.  So it's clearly material for a
> > separate patch.
>
> No, I cannot check the Linux code.  AFAIK this can cause copyright
> problems.  But I agree that more and better error checking is
> required.

I know.  That's why I'll write it from specifications or maybe I'll  
take it from the GNU/Hurd code.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin