Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error...

[Dhruv Matani <dhruvbird@gmx.net>]

One more thing I forgot to mention is that if I use that hard 80-pin
cable, then I do not get such errors at boot time, but get them when
some service is loading, and if I use the cheaper more flexible
cable(with possibly lesser number of cables), then I get these errors
while the kernel is loading as well as when some service is loading.
That service is smartd.

Again, only in 2.4.20-8, in the previous version(the default that came
with RedHat-7.2), there is no such problem. Also, I use a re-compiled
version of the 2.4.20-8 kernel, whereas the default RedHat provided one
for 7.2, but the errors persist even for the default RedHat-9 kernel
2.4.20-8, so I suspect that it's a kernel thing.

One more thing! In RedHat-9 with 2.4.20-8, sometimes, the number of
processes just increases like mad! and the whole system becomes
unstable. Then I get errors like I/O error, and hda can not be read
from, and a whole list of blocks.



On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 17:55, Evaldo Gardenali wrote:
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> Dhruv Matani wrote:
> | Hi,
> | 	I've been getting this error for my brand new (2 months old) Samsung
> | HDD. The model Number is: SV0411N, and it is a 40GB disk. I'm using the
> | kernel version 2.4.20-8 provided by RedHat. When I used RH-7.2(before
> | upgrading to RH-9), the same HDD worked fine. Also, when I re-installed
> | RH-7.2, it worked fine?
> |
> | Any suggestions?
> |
> | Please cc me the reply, sine I'm not subscribed.
> | Thanks ;-)
> |
> 
> Hi there!
> on your kernel config, make sure you enable this:
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> 
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> ~  x CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE:
> ~    x
> ~  x
> ~    x
> ~  x If you get this error, try to say Y here:
> ~    x
> ~  x
> ~    x
> ~  x hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ~    x
> ~  x hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
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> ~  x
> ~    x
> ~  x If in doubt, say N.
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