Re: probable PIIX4 problem

Horst von Brand (andre@suse.com)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:46:14 -0700 (PDT)

Is this disk one of the new ATA-66 jobbers?
If so get a patch or use the development kernel and include
.....PIIX_TUNING or run the IBM tool for disabling the ATA-66 options.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Nico Schmoigl wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > I see a similar error on my brand new IDE disk (IBM-DJNA-371800) running
> > 2.2.11 on a Tyan Thunderbolt, which also has the PIIX4 chipset.
> > Linux version 2.2.11 (root@squeamish) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #2 SMP Fri Aug 6 08:10:24 EDT 1999
> > Aug 18 02:03:03 squeamish kernel: hda: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > Aug 18 02:03:03 squeamish kernel: hda: write_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=14634227, sector=1493221
> > Aug 18 03:39:13 squeamish kernel: hda: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > Aug 18 03:39:13 squeamish kernel: hda: write_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=14196987, sector=1055867
> > Aug 18 03:40:20 squeamish kernel: hda: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > Aug 18 03:40:20 squeamish kernel: hda: write_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFoun d }, LBAsect=14210045, sector=1068917
> > Most of the time it happens a few times a day, however a few times it
> > wedged the machine. Before it died klogd consumed 100% cpu. Maybe
> > generating the message causes klogd to write to the disk which causes the
> > error to repeat.
> > I did a fsck blockcheck and it didn't find and problems with the disk.
>
> I've got very similar problems with my setup here and this with two
> devices! Sometimes Linux get this errors on a IBM DHEA (6.4GB)
> and sometimes it takes the Maxtor 10,8GB. At first I took a guess
> that these devices are too hot and I installed another fan into my
> case. This made it a bit better, but after some time, the old stuff
> appeared :-(
> In my case, any appearance of these messages caused a hangup
> of Linux - even SysRq did not work :-( Did you check whether your
> drives are running hot?
>
> 73
> Nico
>
> EMail: cts@writemail.com
> PGP-fingerprint: 5DDB 09E4 3FF3 CD09 7559 1117 9C03 46E3 38FC 9E03
>
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