hda: task_no_data_intr

hda: task_no_data_intr

[Gabor Z. Papp]

What mean this message at boot time?

hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

2.4.20, Pentium 1, Intel HX chipset.

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
with idebus=xx
PIIX3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX3: chipset revision 0
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: 8418816 sectors (4310 MB) w/81KiB Cache, CHS=524/255/63

Tried with 3 different hard disks, and got the same message
every time. Seems like I'm also unable to make ext3 fs on
the disks.

Re: hda: task_no_data_intr

[John Bradford]

> What mean this message at boot time?
> 
> hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

I think that they are diagnostic messages that are a result of an old
disk not supporting some new commands that are being send to it.  I
thought this was done silently in the 2.4.x series - I see it on some
really old, (100 MB) disks running 2.5.x

I _think_ you can safely ignore it, but I am CCing Alan, because he
will know for certain.

> Tried with 3 different hard disks, and got the same message
> every time.

Are they all of a similar age/capacity?

> Seems like I'm also unable to make ext3 fs on the disks.

What is the exact problem?

John.

Re: hda: task_no_data_intr

[Alan Cox]

> > hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> 
> I think that they are diagnostic messages that are a result of an old
> disk not supporting some new commands that are being send to it.  I

They are.

> thought this was done silently in the 2.4.x series - I see it on some
> really old, (100 MB) disks running 2.5.x

Some of them were not done on 2.4 before at all.

Alan

Re: hda: task_no_data_intr

[Gabor Z. Papp]

* John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>:

|> Tried with 3 different hard disks, and got the same message
|> every time.
| 
| Are they all of a similar age/capacity?

QUANTUM FIREBALL ST4.3A from 1998
QUANTUM Pioneer SG 1GB from ~1996
WD Caviar 1GB from ~1998

|> Seems like I'm also unable to make ext3 fs on the disks.
| 
| What is the exact problem?

mke2fs -j says 'no such file: mke2fs' at building the
filesystem on the 1GB disks, and I'm able to make ext3 on
the 4.3 Quantum, but I'm unable to mount it as ext3:

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2