Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Friday 04 of June 2004 13:32, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04 2004, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > On June 4, 2004 05:42 am, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 03 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Ed Tomlinson <edt@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am still getting these ide errors with 7-rc2-mm2.  I  get the
> > > > > errors even if I mount with barrier=0 (or just defaults).  It would
> > > > > seem that something is sending my drive commands it does not
> > > > > understand...
> > > > >
> > > > > May 27 18:18:05 bert kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 {
> > > > > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } May 27 18:18:05 bert kernel: hda:
> > > > > drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> > > > >
> > > > > How can we find out what is wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > > This does not seem to be an error that corrupts the fs, it just
> > > > > slows things down when it hits a group of these.  Note that they
> > > > > keep poping up - they do stop (I still get them hours after
> > > > > booting).
> > > >
> > > > Jens, do we still have the command bytes available when this error
> > > > hits?
> > >
> > > It's not trivial, here's a hack that should dump the offending opcode
> > > though.
> >
> > Hi Jens,
> >
> > I applied the patch below and booted into the new kernel (the boot
> > message showed the new compile time).  The error messages remained the
> > same - no extra info.  Is there another place that prints this (or
> > (!rq) is true)?
>
> !rq should not be true, strange... are you sure it just doesn't to go
> /var/log/messages, it should be there in dmesg. Alternatively, add a
> KERN_ERR to that printk.

Probably !rq is true.

Hint: this is what you get for playing tricks with hwrgroup->wrq
(do you now understand why it is evil?).

Cheers,
Bartlomiej

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