Lan Barnes wrote:
> My MythTV box (FC6) is throwing these messages on boot and in dmesg:
>
> hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
> hdd: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
>
> Both drives are less than a year old; one less than 6 months. What's going
> on?
>
I've seen these error messages for
1) actual bad drives (but usu. not where 2+ fail at once)
(confirmed by manufacturer's diagnostic utility)
(preferably, testing on another box)
2) bad cabling or loose connectors
3) bad motherboard (I think) -- or maybe heat problem in chipset?
In some cases I have regained stability by backing off the UDMA settings
via hdparm -X until the DriveReady SeekComplete Error stopped. Can't
say I felt good (or comfortable) about doing that, though.
Regards,
..jim
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