Re: LibPATA code issues / 2.6.17.3 (What is the next step?)

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 09:28 -0400, ysgrifennodd Justin Piszcz:
>> Alan/Jeff/Mark,
>>
>> Is there anything else I can do to further troubleshoot this problem now 
>> that we have the failed opcode(s)?  Again, there is never any corruption 
>> on these drives, so it is more of an annoyance than anything else.
> 
> Nothing strikes me so far other than the data not making sense. Possibly
> it will become clearer later if/when we see other examples.

For me it's SMART related.

smartctl -data -o on /dev/sda reliably gets a similar message.
Justin - does this smartctl command trigger a message for you?

I've been mailing on and off since January-ish.
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&w=2&r=7&s=libpata&q=b)

Back in March I was running 2.6.16 (with a different version of Mark's
opcode patch) and I sent an email with the following info:

dmesg:
ata1: translated op=0x28 cmd=0x25 ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI
SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00
ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

Does that help with the diagnosis?

Also see my emails: SMART on SATA reporting errors?
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=113933732903205&w=2

I did reply but got no response so I assumed I was just so far off base
that I was being ignored  :)

David