Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

[Mark M <markm@student.unsw.edu.au>]

Hi Bart,

> running into some error messages:
> hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned these yet, here are a few things
you could check:

i) Is there a power down of the drive through bios?

ii) i have heard that if a PIO mode is specified that is too high for  
the drive, these errors can occur. hdparm (as root) can give you the 
defaults for your drive (from memory it's something like
hdparm -i /dev/hdb, but I am miles away from my man pages ATM so pls 
check first)

HTH

Mark.