RE: The WHY's (RE: ide drive w/dma ... system crash)

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Tue, 11 May 1999 19:41:24 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 12 May 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> Ah, you were cheated by Andre.

cheated!! B)

> So, `hdparm -i' is completely worthless (for geometries) these days.
> That is why I asked for `hdparm -I'.

Ok I missed the -I, here we go B)

# /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc:

Model=aMtxro9 71828D , FwRev=AG5S1421, SerialNo=8A501SCX
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=29
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=33750864
WARNING 17236800 ORPHANED SECTORS :: KERNEL REPORTING ERROR
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 *mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4

And not only that I get the wonderful

hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

In my dmesg.

What about the very scary 'ORPHANED SECTORS' message? Hmm. B)

-Dan

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