On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:25:20AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I just recently added a new hard drive to my firewall machine and I'm
> seeing the following errors:
>
> Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10914399, sector=10914224
> Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01
> (hdc), sector 10914224
>
> Looking through the kernel documentation, I see mention of a similar
> error:
>
> hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> These seem similar enough, except for the "dma_intr" vs "set_multmode"
> parts differing. And something tells me that those differences might, in
> fact, be rather substantial.
>
> Is anyone familiar with this error? Is it anything to be concerned
> about? Is there any way to fix it? I've heard that getting a "DriveReady
> SeekComplete" error could be a sign of imminent drive failure, but this
> drive is almost brand new. I've never had any problems with it before.
> And, as far as I've been able to tell, it isn't losing any data or
> behaving in any other strange way. Any suggestions?
There have been several replies with worse case scenarios, and only one
that said something along the lines of "replace your motherboard". I'd
like to add something, too.
IIRC, some time ago (weeks? months?) someone had a similar problem after
recompiling his kernel and after he added some drivers (for his
chipset?) the error messages disappeared. So, maybe it's your kernel not
being able to handle your drive and/or chipset correctly. Maybe some
googling and searching at lists.debian.org might bring up this thread.
As an aside, if your kernel is indeed not able to handle your drive
and/or chipset correctly, might it be able to generate these error
messages and then crash the drive? Thoughts anyone?
HTH, David
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