Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

damnit, don't trim the cc list!

On Fri, Jun 04 2004, mattia wrote:
> I have the following error (kernel 2.6.6):
> 
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdc: Maxtor 6Y160P0, ATA DISK drive
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdd: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hda: max request size: 128KiB
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB
> Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel:  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdc: max request size: 1024KiB
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdc: 320173056 sectors (163928 MB)
> w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=19929/255/63, UDMA(100)
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel:  hdc: hdc1
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdd: max request size: 128KiB
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdd: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB)
> w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel:  hdd: hdd1 hdd2 hdd3
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdd: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdd: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 {
> DriveStatusError }
> Jun  4 08:05:43 blink kernel: hdd: Write Cache FAILED Flushing!
> 
> 
> I found somewhere that's something wrong with that maxtor drive.
> However, everything works fine.

There's nothing wrong with the drive technically, it's just odd (lba48
without FLUSH_CACHE_EXT). It's really a linux ide bug that's fixed in
newer kernels. 2.6.7 will fix your problem.

-- 
Jens Axboe