Re: AHCI: what does it mean if the drive is busy forever?
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:48 pm
1) Don't assume anything. Assume will get you in trouble really fast.mariuszp wrote:Sometimes (typically after a reboot) on physical hardware, the AHCI controller gets stuck in a state where the "BSY" bit is set in PxTFD, and never clears. bits 4 and 6 ("command-specific") are set too: I'm not sure where to look up the meanings of those.
I have 2 questions:
1) Am I supopsed to do a full port reset whenever my driver loads? Or am I supposed to assume the firmware initialised them?
2) What does it mean if the BSY bit is just set forever?
2) I have a machine that the "BSY bit is just set forever". I am quite sure that the controller or the drive is bad, though I don't wish to spend the $50 to replace the drive just to see if it was the drive. (no, I don't have another matching laptop to place this drive into... :-)
Ben
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