Re: yeah, it was hardware error, we can ship!

[Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>]

Hans Reiser writes:
 > Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > 
 > >David Dabbs writes:
 > > > 
 > > > >David, what distribution were you using when he got these errors?  What
 > > > >desktop environment was running on X at the time?
 > > > 
 > > > SuSE 9.1 kde
 > > > 
 > >
 > >Then you can ignore these messages. They are driver artefact. There
 > >was lengthy thread on this subject on LKML recently.
 > > 
 > > > 
 > > > >BTW: I have ext3 and reiserfs (3.6) partitions on this notebook.  On the
 > > > >old hard drive, I used plain old partitions.  On the new drive, I use
 > > > >LVM for everything except /boot and swap.
 > > > 
 > > > Thanks for the info, Lamont.
 > > > 
 > > > David
 > > > 
 > >
 > >Nikita.
 > >
 > > > 
 > > > 
 > >
 > >
 > >  
 > >
 > Are your words intended to suggest that it is not a hardware bug, and 
 > thus might be software?

Yes, these messages are harmless. I am getting them also, on a brand-new
disk, SuSE9.1

Jul  3 10:44:04 tau kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul  3 10:44:04 tau kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Jul  3 10:44:04 tau kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jul  3 10:44:04 tau kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }  

Search for SeekComplete in the LKML archive.

Nikita.