Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:47:47 -0500 (EST) | | From | Dale Scheetz <> | | Subject | Re: Recovered errors on ide1 |
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Eric Hoeltzel wrote: > > > I am not using the CMD640, my ide controller is a Genoa Veloce > ide/floppy/serial/parallel/video combo card. I have been getting: > > hda: status error: status=0x00 { } > hda: drive not ready for command > hda: status error: status=0x00 { } > hda: drive not ready for command > hda: status error: status=0x00 { } > hda: drive not ready for command > hda: status error: status=0x00 { } > hda: drive not ready for command > ide0: reset: success > > with increasing frequency on my console. I do not have CMD640 support > in my kernel either.
I get this same sequence, but on hdc and ide1.
....deleted stuff.... > I got several replies, sort of confirming my initial suspicion > that the drive is going bad. It is a Western Digital Caviar > 1.6 meg with a 200 meg Western Digital slaved to it. However, > other replies indicated that it could be heat, loose cables, > etc. > > I popped the case off and replaced the 200 meg with a 2.5 gig > Fujitsu IDE so I could copy what I needed off of the 1.6 gig > WD and messages like the above became even more severe, some > involving hdb. I then put everything back the way it was and > the errors disappeared for a few days. Today they are back.
Seems the only thing our two machines have in common is a Wester Digital drive. Mine is a 1.2 gig AC2540, and I remember having to do some voodoo to get the drive to work when I installed it. I'm beginning to believe that it's some quirkyness in the WD drive.
> > I know very well what a sick ide drive sounds like and my > drive doesn't sound like that. When these errors show up > the drive does make some pretty ugly noises, but these are > not the "sick ide noises." > Same here.
> I am running 2.0.27 on a local bus 486-50dx, nothing special. > Slackware 96. 20 megs ram. In general a nice little system. > I am not entirely convinced the drive is going bad. > I'm running a Debian system and a 2.0.27 kernel on a P75 PCI bus motherboard, so we are similar in the particulars of interest.
Guess it's time to look for a Western Digital technician :-(
Dwarf
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