Re: "DriveReady SeekComplete" errors with new hard drive
On Monday 23 June 2003 11:25, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> I just recently added a new hard drive to my firewall machine and I'm
> seeing the following errors:
>
> Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
> UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10914399, sector=10914224
> Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01
> (hdc), sector 10914224
>
> Looking through the kernel documentation, I see mention of a similar
> error:
>
> hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> These seem similar enough, except for the "dma_intr" vs "set_multmode"
> parts differing. And something tells me that those differences might, in
> fact, be rather substantial.
error 0x04 is said to be mostly harmless (found on the LKML). You error seems
to be a bit worse. You'll get several replies saying "go shopping" shortly.
First step: backup your data. Do this no matter what happens, it's always a
good thing.
Afterwards, you might want to get some drive diagnostics tools. Most vendors
offer such tools under different names and a bit of googling might get you
there. There also are the smartmontools for Linux (debian package with the
same name available via apt), but those require a bit of attention since they
don't know all drives data formats and might display bogus values (e.g.
several 100k disk errors displayed when only some 100s were there). Using
such a tool, run a complete self-test.
--
Got Backup?
Reply to: