Maxtor: DriveSeekStatus Error (error=0x84)

Post #48,484 by kmself 8/6/02 9:25:08 PM Reply	Maxtor: DriveSeekStatus Error (error=0x84) More specifically: `hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }` ...more at [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Know/DriveStatusErrorBadCRC\|TWikIWeThey:Know.DriveStatusErrorBadCRC] -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
Post #48,527 by deSitter 8/7/02 1:42:37 PM Reply	IDE or SCSI? RAID? Methinks it's bad sectors but can't find the kernel code w/o info++. -drl
Post #48,601 by kmself 8/7/02 6:33:26 PM Reply	hda: IDE, non-RAIDEed The drive type is intrinsic to the device. Fixed the problem for now with a Maxtor 133 MHz IDE plugin card for the time being. Both cable and bus/driver issues seem to be in play here. The message is more a general "I'm not happy" response, I think, than a specific instance of what's wrong. Details, including debug and diagnostic tips, to the [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Know/\|TWikIWeThey knowledgebase]. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? [link\|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/\|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever. Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]
Post #48,883 by deSitter 8/9/02 8:27:19 PM Reply	Any of you Help Desk Dudes Workin' This Ticket? -drl
Post #48,924 by folkert 8/10/02 11:28:41 AM Reply	Well gimme some more info... I want you to do a couple of things fer me... and post the output here ... First off get hdparm v5.2, it fixes some big issues with 4.6 (which is the "general" version in alot of Distros) Compile, rename orig to HDparm, then install it. Then: `hdparm -i /dev/hda` and post it. Do a `telinit 1` to bring you into single user mode. Then: `hdparm -Tt /dev/hda` and post it. Also I want to know the IDE chipset it was running with. Look in `/proc/pci` for that info. Just FYI, I use this string for (most of )my HDs that are udma5 capable: `hdparm -X69 -d1 -u1 -c1 -m16 /dev/hda` Forcing everything to use PIO modes really make thing unstable... which is what you are currently running. `greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT, curley95@attbi.com -- [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!]`
Post #48,536 by boxley 8/7/02 2:41:20 PM Reply	heads doin the whorly bird either drive is tired or cable misaligned. If this is sporiadic ignore. If it is all the time, replace. thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #48,578 by Ashton 8/7/02 4:59:07 PM Reply	Gota spare controller card? and/or cable for test? Personally I'd use Tweek\ufffd (available at hi-end audio shops) or Cramolin\ufffd (various nostrums - at decent electronic tech parts suppliers) - and treat every connection in the chain: usually with a nail-polish remover type small brush. Hell - it's a good time then to do the mem sticks and all other plug-ins: cheap insurance for all intermittents. Was getting similar errors on a friend's ancient DX-66 (!) but which has a snazzy SCSI HD. Pushed down all movable ICs on ctrl card (one squeaked) - as I didn't have Tweek handy. Cleaned as many connectors as I could, with stone knives & bearskins. Errors haven't recurred, but I'll Tweek it, if they do. Vibration does cause lots of ICs to slowly slither up, I and others have found.. HTH, Ashton 'Course as said - bad physical HD or its servo electronics (??)
Post #48,596 by pwhysall 8/7/02 6:08:51 PM Reply	That's your disk's way of saying, "I'm outta here!" Replace it. Soon. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #48,915 by static 8/10/02 4:10:38 AM Reply	I agree. I saw a failing Matrox drive giving much the same errors yesterday. Perhaps you could find a SMART-enabled BIOS and see what it thinks about the drive. The SMART message about command failure was what clued me into the fact the drive was not only dying, but knew it was dying. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #48,951 by bepatient 8/10/02 5:31:05 PM Reply	What about... ...short read errors when booting that crap out fsck? I have a feeling that my server's drive is about to die...but was wondering if I could just bark the 3 sectors bad and keep running? You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #48,955 by Ashton 8/10/02 6:28:03 PM Reply	Curious.. Assuming you aren't formatted in Reiserfs or some other cockamamie Real File System for a real OS: could you boot to DOS (yeah That DOS) and run SpinRite on your *.nix install? (I mean - without partition tomfoolery and some kluge simulating 'logical drives' as a temporary expedient, which I don't quite see enough to be sure: is either absurd or.. probably a lot of fakery to be done) Reason being - while you can obviously X-out any old sectors you want to, once you know which they are: with SR you would also get a free refresh of the lo-level format, along with his magic B/H magnetic prestidigitation of every magn. domain on the disk. It could save a drive (has for me) but guessing in advance is.. er impossible. ?? Ashton Pity ol Steve hasn't redone SR for modrin thingies.. :(
Post #48,983 by static 8/11/02 2:17:06 AM Reply	Dunno. The drive I was having problems with was FAT32. It was having trouble booting to it's installed Windows 98, but the BIOS was complaining about it, too. And when I booted the Linux CD, it took a full minute trying to read the partition table before it gave up as a damaged drive. Whilst SMART drives are supposed to remap bad sectors, this is not an infallible algorithm. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #54,161 by CRConrad 10/1/02 4:08:26 AM Reply	"DriveStatusErrorBadCRC" ??? What, "Bad CRC"... is bloody well EVERYTHING around here my fault?!? Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #54,179 by Andrew Grygus 10/1/02 5:15:47 AM Reply	Well, that depends . . Are you the Good CRC or the Bad one? [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #54,203 by n3jja 10/1/02 8:16:30 AM Reply	He's the cranky CRC. ;-)
Post #54,350 by drewk 10/1/02 4:39:21 PM Reply	Good ... bad ... he's the one with the drive status error === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #54,347 by a6l6e6x 10/1/02 4:21:58 PM Reply	We all know about CRC. And, it is a "good thing". :) Alex The sun will set without thy assistance. -- The Talmud
Post #54,390 by Ashton 10/1/02 10:14:11 PM Reply	When one {sob} has become an Industry Standard Error (oh the ignominy... at a party, say?) [Sounds of chatter, laughter, tinkles, dropped lobster fork..] Who's that guy in the corner lookin kinda glum? Oh.. that's CRC {shudder} You know.. HIM.. What? You mean.. He's The Guy** responsible for my losing 67 chapters of my novel, A Brief History of Brevity last year ?? [The Silence. . . as when mentioning Ashcroft say, amidst an otherwise pleasant soiree] Can hear a lobster fork drop on a Vicu\ufffda carpet . . . I'll Kill Im ----> !! [scuffle sounds, cringes.. band plays to calm crowd, the tearful Zappa, She's Leaving Home] So let us not mention it again.. remember poor Cyrano and be compassionate. - A Humble Do-Gooder full of Charity for Christian(s) Everywhere (sniff} {chortle}

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