On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 12:38:37AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > 	I get the following during high disk activity (fscking etc) from a 
> > > "ST31720A, 1626MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=826/64/63" disk:
> > > 
> > > hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > > hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1643225, sector=1437593
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:42, sector 1437593
> > 
> > Bad Bad Bad... I got that from an HD and it died one month later (can you
> > say "*click* *click*" ;)
> > 
> 
> Nope, this is quite normal from many UDMA disks and Linux . Try forcing
> the disk into PIO mode 3. See if the errors go away.
> 

	The disk seems to default to PIO mode 4. I tried 3, didn't help.
Any ideas on what these messages mean? Which part of what is having trouble?
I'm clueless, any help would be appreciated :)
	Btw, setting the pio mode with hdparm -p3 gives a 
"HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE failed: Function not implemented", doing it through BIOS
settings appears to work.
		-- Jakke

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