From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030814AbXDVNDj (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:03:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030837AbXDVNDj (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:03:39 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:4625 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030814AbXDVNDi (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:03:38 -0400 Message-ID: <462B5D28.2000901@rtr.ca> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:03:36 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sunil Naidu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Andrew Morton , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling? References: <8355959a0704210658j3b54a8cfl8a8a73661cd50c9d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8355959a0704210658j3b54a8cfl8a8a73661cd50c9d@mail.gmail.com> 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 Sunil Naidu wrote: > Hello, > > I am facing a strange problems with an old 1.2 GHz P-III machine with > a 10 GB disk (used as a dedicated web server, later retired out of > service!). > > Out of interest to implement some wireless solution (experiment), I > did compile 2.6.20.7 for my requirement. Strangely, I did observe:- > > hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 > > What might be the problem? > > ~Akula2 Opcode 0xb0 is "WIN_SMART". Error 0x04 is "command aborted/rejected/unsupported". Something on your system is issuing S.M.A.R.T. commands from userspace to the drive, and the drive either (1) doesn't support S.M.A.R.T., or (2) currently does not have S.M.A.R.T. enabled (smartctl -s on /dev/hda). The "smartmontools" package is what normally issues these commands.