Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Jun 04 2004, Rick Jansen wrote:
> 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.

It is, what kernel are you using?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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