Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Apr 21 2007 - 15:45:32 EST


On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:28:30 +0530 "Sunil Naidu" <akula2.shark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am facing a strange problems with an old 1.2 GHz P-III machine with
> a 10 GB disk (used as a dedicated web server, later retired out of
> service!).
>
> Out of interest to implement some wireless solution (experiment), I
> did compile 2.6.20.7 for my requirement. Strangely, I did observe:-
>
> hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
>
> What might be the problem?
>

So the machine is OK with an earlier kernel version? If so, which version?

Please send the full log from attempting to boot 2.6.20.7 on that machine. This
might require netconsole or serial console.

Thanks.
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