[2.6.15] New ATA error messages on upgrade to 2.6.15

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Tue Mar 28 2006 - 12:54:47 EST


I'm getting the following errors in my syslog on a fairly regular basis (1 or 2 per hour). They seem to have started when I upgraded from Debian 2.6.12-1-powerpc (with internal IDE patch) to Debian 2.6.15-1-powerpc. My best guess is for some reason the kernel started issuing the command MULTWRITE_EXT that it didn't before, and one of my drives doesn't like it. Two of the drives are attached to a Promise PDC20268 (Rebranded a couple times by different manufacturers and with mac-bootable firmware), the third is attached to the internal ATA66 bus in the 400MHz powermac G4. My apologies if this problem is known and fixed in 2.6.16; if necessary I'll wait until Debian testing gets a 2.6.16 kernel and test that too.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

Begin forwarded message:
Security Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: hdi: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Mar 28 03:15:13 penelope kernel: ide4: reset: success
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: hdi: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Mar 28 03:30:13 penelope kernel: ide4: reset: success

smartctl -a:
smartctl version 5.34 [powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: SAMSUNG SP0822N
Serial Number: S06QJ10Y946116
Firmware Version: WA100-32
User Capacity: 80,060,424,192 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 1
Local Time is: Tue Mar 28 12:54:35 2006 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self- test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (1980) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 33) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 17
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 099 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 252 252 011 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 011 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 252 252 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 092 092 015 Pre-fail Offline - 3665
9 Power_On_Half_Minutes 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 32h+43m
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 252 252 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 154 133 000 Old_age Always - 33
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 151 133 000 Old_age Always - 34
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 173
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

Warning! SMART ATA Error Log Structure error: invalid SMART checksum.
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime (hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3918 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3894 -
# 3 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 30% 3870 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3846 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3822 -
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3798 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3774 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3750 -
# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3726 -
#10 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3703 -
#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3678 -
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3654 -
#13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3630 -
#14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3606 -
#15 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3582 -
#16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3558 -
#17 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3535 -
#18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3511 -
#19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3487 -
#20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3463 -
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3439 -

SMART Selective Self-Test Log Data Structure Revision Number (0) should be 1
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data structure revision number = 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 281479271677952 0 Not_testing
4 0 281479271767952 Not_testing
5 604800 4 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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