Bug#334275: linux-image-2.6.13-1-686: ide error messages come up

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:05:32PM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 08:30:23PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
>  
> > With 2.6.13 I get the following IDE error messages during boot time:
> > 
> > Oct 14 15:55:24 feivel kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > Oct 14 15:55:24 feivel kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> > Oct 14 15:55:24 feivel kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > Oct 14 15:55:24 feivel kernel: hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > Oct 14 15:55:24 feivel kernel: hda: set_drive_speed_status: error=0xd0 { BadSector UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=13684944, sector=24
> > 921508
> > Oct 14 15:55:24 feivel kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > 
> > I have never seen any of these with 2.6.12 or earlier kernels. The
> > unknown opcode and sector look strange. Any idea what I could do to get
> > more information?
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> backup your data, aboves is a drive failure.

Agreed, this kind of failure almost always indicates that
hardware is failing, and once it starts failing it usually
fails at an accellerated rate until you can't use the
drive any more.

This problem may not have shown up in 2.6.12 because
at that time your hardware was not exhibiting the problem.
It also may not have shown up because the code may have
been changed a bit and is now more sensitive.

But in any case I think the chance that is a disk problem
is overwhelmingly more likely than a kernel bug.

-- 
Horms