Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

[Sunil Naidu]

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

Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:28:30 +0530 "Sunil Naidu" <akula2.shark@gmail.com> 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?
> 

So the machine is OK with an earlier kernel version?  If so, which version?

Please send the full log from attempting to boot 2.6.20.7 on that machine.  This
might require netconsole or serial console.

Thanks.

Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

[Mark Lord]

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.

Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

[Sunil Naidu]

>> On 4/22/07, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Yep, you are right. I did disable the smartd service. I am used to
SMARTing always (always work with high-end disks.). Now no issues,
thanks.

~Akula2