Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

[Rick Jansen]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:43:02AM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> Please post more information.  First, what size is the disk?
> 
> The LBAsect number suggests an access around 108 Gb.  If the disk is smaller
> than this, then it would appear that a request was made for a non-existant
> sector.
> 
> Is the LBAsect number the same in each error?  What is the machine doing
> when the errors occur?
> 
> John.

Here's some more information about the disk from the boot log.
I also found some StatusErrors in there.

May 10 11:14:07 web3 kernel: hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
May 10 11:14:07 web3 kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
May 10 11:14:07 web3 kernel: hda: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB)
w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(133)
May 10 11:14:07 web3 kernel:  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
May 10 11:14:07 web3 kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
May 10 11:14:07 web3 kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 {
DriveStatusError }
May 10 11:14:07 web3 kernel: hda: Write Cache FAILED Flushing!

Thats a different error then what it gives me occasionaly. Googling this
error lead me to believe this is a bug in the ide driver, that my disk
doesnt support some flush command.

After parsing the log with simple script, these sectors seem to give the
errors:

227270012
227270483
236708724
237757036
237757472
238018530
238020393
238279554
238804853
239066426
239328347
239590823
240116567
240121662
58619113
58619120
58619127
58619447
58619448
58619519
58620045
58620048
58620331

I've tried to reproduce these errors by rsyncing the whole filesystem,
executing various find / commands, but nothing triggered them. The
machine is primarily a web server, so my guess is they happen when
apache tries to do something to the disk. 

The output from smartctl -a seems a bit large to include in this email.

Rick Jansen

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