From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:25:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:25:56 -0400 Received: from orange.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.77]:63730 "EHLO orange.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:25:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3DA9599F.5080208@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:31:43 +0100 From: Jeff Snyder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Matt Johnson Subject: IDE Disk errors/problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi i've been getting errors that look somewhat like this when i try to boot my kernel: ... many many many similar lines preceeding this... hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=79777432, sector=23855105 hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=79777432, sector=23855105 ide0: reset: success hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=79777432, sector=23855105 end_request: I/O error, dev 3:06 (hda), sector 23855104 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3:06 i dont think the error is with the drive, as the drive's last LBA sector is 78124xxx, so "SectorIdNotFound" is because the sectorId dosent exist (?) similar problems have been discussed on the lkml here: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-37/subject.html#start ("DMA problmes w/PIIX3 IDE.2420-pre4-ac2") here: http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2000-November/025029.html and here: http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2000/Sep/index.html#1691("[patch-required!] Recent kernels show problems in handling VERY large HDs"). The drive in question is a Maxtor 7200rpm 40Gb drive, with no other devices on either ide bus, and on a motherboard with a KT133 chipset. Please CC me directly, i'm not on the list :-) - Jeff//