Re: [linux-lvm] read_intr errors

[Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:27:21AM -0700, Erick Calder wrote:
> hi everyone, I've read a number of dialogues on the archives concerning the
> errors below which I'm getting but have not found any answers:
> 
> I'm running RedHat 7.0 (2.4.9 kernel + LVM 1.0.1rc1) on a little PIII box
> and I'm using the ide controllers built into the motherboard (drivers built
> into the kernel - not modules).  I have CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE set to y
> in the .config for the kernel.  The drive is an IBM-DTLA-307030 (as reported
> by /proc/ide) and is brand new.
> 
> here are the errors:
> 
> Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 {
> DriveStatusError }
> Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 {
> DriveStatusError }
> Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: ide1: reset: success
> 
> I've been moving data in and out of the drive and everything seems ok but I
> get lots of the above errors which leaves me with a queasy feeling...
> anyone know what the deal is with this?

I'm afraid they look a lot like hardware errors to me. It might just be that it
doesn't like MULTI_MODE though. I'm not an IDE expert.

patrick