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voidzero

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Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 109

Uhoh... hardware problems or libata problems?

I have just installed Archlinux on a p3 (coppermine) 800. It used to run debian but ofcourse that needed to change.
It's a pretty old system but that doesn't mean it's broken. Actually I doubt it because I haven't had an filesystem problem yet.

I never got these following errors on debian (which possibly used different modules. Debian's too vague to know anything certain IMO ) These show up every minute in syslog.

[kernel] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[kernel] ata1.00: cmd e7/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
[kernel]          res 51/04:08:a7:6e:d0/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
[kernel] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[kernel] ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
[kernel] ata1.00: configured for PIO0
[kernel] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/66
[kernel] ata1: EH complete
[kernel] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15698592 512-byte hardware sectors (8038 MB)
[kernel] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[kernel] ata1.00: cmd e7/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
[kernel]          res 51/04:00:cf:85:72/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
[kernel] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[kernel] ata1.00: error: { ABRT }
[kernel] ata1.00: configured for PIO0
[kernel] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/66
[kernel] ata1: EH complete
[kernel] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[kernel] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[kernel] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 40132503 512-byte hardware sectors (20548 MB)
[kernel] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[kernel] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[kernel] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15698592 512-byte hardware sectors (8038 MB)
[kernel] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[kernel] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[kernel] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] 40132503 512-byte hardware sectors (20548 MB)
[kernel] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[kernel] sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

sda and sdb are both on 80pin cables (if that matters). there's also an sdc - without these problems!
sda is an oldie but like I said I never saw these problems on debian. Hope you can help me out.

Last edited by voidzero (2008-03-13 18:51:18)

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: Uhoh... hardware problems or libata problems?

you might see if the disk knows that its failing with smartctl from smartmontools, if it supports smart (quite likely).

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: Uhoh... hardware problems or libata problems?

Libata problem IMHO

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voidzero

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Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 109

Re: Uhoh... hardware problems or libata problems?

Ok well I couldn't find any solution.. so I ended up regex'ing it into metalog so I can 'ignore' the problem. Bummer.