On Fri, July 13, 2007 7:02 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> 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
>
The box appears to be running beautifully. How afraid should I be?
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