Re: odd messages from an ide disk

Jarkko Kovala (jaguar@juppi.merikoski.edu.ouka.fi)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:16:43 +0300


On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:38:37AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
>
> >
> > > I get the following during high disk activity (fscking etc) from a
> > > "ST31720A, 1626MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=826/64/63" disk:
> > >
> > > hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > > hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1643225, sector=1437593
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:42, sector 1437593
> >
> > Bad Bad Bad... I got that from an HD and it died one month later (can you
> > say "*click* *click*" ;)
> >
>
> Nope, this is quite normal from many UDMA disks and Linux . Try forcing
> the disk into PIO mode 3. See if the errors go away.
>

The disk seems to default to PIO mode 4. I tried 3, didn't help.
Any ideas on what these messages mean? Which part of what is having trouble?
I'm clueless, any help would be appreciated :)
Btw, setting the pio mode with hdparm -p3 gives a
"HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE failed: Function not implemented", doing it through BIOS
settings appears to work.
-- Jakke

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