[RESEND][2.6.15] New ATA error messages on upgrade to 2.6.15

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 17:13:48 EST

I haven't received any response to this email over the last several days, so I'm resending it in hopes that someone can help me track down the problem. Thanks!

On Mar 28, 2006, at 12:57:29, Kyle Moffett wrote:
I'm getting the following errors in my syslog on a fairly regular basis (1 or 2 per hour). They seem to have started when I upgraded from Debian 2.6.12-1-powerpc (with internal IDE patch) to Debian 2.6.15-1-powerpc. My best guess is for some reason the kernel started issuing the command MULTWRITE_EXT that it didn't before, and one of my drives doesn't like it. Two of the drives are attached to a Promise PDC20268 (Rebranded a couple times by different manufacturers and with mac-bootable firmware), the third is attached to the internal ATA66 bus in the 400MHz powermac G4. My apologies if this problem is known and fixed in 2.6.16; if necessary I'll wait until Debian testing gets a 2.6.16 kernel and test that too.

A few extra notes: The system is a Samba fileserver for a collection of Windows XP clients, but the pattern of errors does not seem to be triggered by load, including the daily backups. The hourly smart checks also appear to have nothing to do with the error messages; sometimes I'll get 10 in the middle of the night, other times almost a full day of reasonable load will go by without a single message.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

Begin forwarded message:
Security Events
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Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: hdi: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: ide4: reset: success
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: hdi: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: ide4: reset: success

smartctl -a:
smartctl version 5.34 [powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: SAMSUNG SP0822N
Serial Number: S06QJ10Y946116
Firmware Version: WA100-32
User Capacity: 80,060,424,192 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 1
Local Time is: Tue Mar 28 12:54:35 2006 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self- test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (1980) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 33) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 17
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 099 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 252 252 011 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 011 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 252 252 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 092 092 015 Pre-fail Offline - 3665
9 Power_On_Half_Minutes 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 32h+43m
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 252 252 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 154 133 000 Old_age Always - 33
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 151 133 000 Old_age Always - 34
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 173
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

Warning! SMART ATA Error Log Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3918 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3894 -
# 3 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 30% 3870 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3846 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3822 -
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3798 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3774 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3750 -
# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3726 -
#10 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3703 -
#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3678 -
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3654 -
#13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3630 -
#14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3606 -
#15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3582 -
#16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3558 -
#17 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3535 -
#18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3511 -
#19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3487 -
#20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3463 -
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3439 -

SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number (0) should be 1
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data structure revision number = 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 281479271677952 0 Not_testing
4 0 281479271767952 Not_testing
5 604800 4 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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