Hard disk errors?

Pablo Bianucci (pbian@pccp.com.ar)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 22:58:12 -0300 (ART)


Hi!

I was connected to the Net, running one NCftp and one lftp, nothing else
that I can remember and I got some errors.
I was running a SMP 2.1.65 kernel on a Dual P166. The disk is a Western
Digital (WDC AC21600H) IDE drive on a PCI IDE controller.
>From the kernel messages:
atomic kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
atomic kernel: ide1 master/slave: sample_CLKs=3, recovery_CLKs=1
atomic kernel: master: fastDMA=yes PreFetch=on IORDY=on fastPIO=on

After that I run a Western Digital utility (WDDIAG) to check the drive
for errors, and it found none.
So, does anybody have any idea about what this could be? Hardware error,
kernel error, a cosmic ray impacting my IDE controller?

The error messages follow:

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Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0xf0 { Busy }
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: hdc: write_intr: status=0x70 { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete }
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: hdc: recal_intr: status=0xff { Busy }
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: hdc: write_intr: status=0x78 { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest }
Nov 21 22:12:51 atomic kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:0c, sector
32813
Nov 21 22:13:06 atomic kernel: hdc: write_intr: status=0x78 { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest }
Nov 21 22:13:06 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:13:06 atomic kernel: hdc: write_intr: status=0x70 { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete }
Nov 21 22:13:06 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:13:06 atomic kernel: hdc: recal_intr: status=0x78 { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest }
Nov 21 22:13:06 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0xff { Busy }
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0xff { Busy }
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: hdc: recal_intr: status=0xff { Busy }
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0xfe { Busy }
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:0c, sector
32812
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: hdc: status error: status=0x78 { DriveReady
DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest }
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: Kernel panic: EXT2-fs panic (device 16:0c):
ext2_write_inode: unable to read i-node block - inode=4233, block=16406
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel:
Nov 21 22:13:36 atomic kernel: ide1: reset: success
===

Thanks!

Bye & Good Luck!

Pablo B.