On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:44:46PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> 
> Empirically, testing the error register this way also just doesn't
> help.  At least with Hitachi/IBM disks, I get 01h ("drive 0 passed,
> drive 1 passed or not present") from drive 0, and a mirror of that
> from phantom-drive 1, so it looks like both drives are present.

Yes, reading the ATA drafts this is how it's supposed to work :)

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