Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, David Greaves wrote: > >> Alan Cox wrote: >>> Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 09:28 -0400, ysgrifennodd Justin Piszcz: >>>> Alan/Jeff/Mark, >>>> >>>> Is there anything else I can do to further troubleshoot this problem >>>> now >>>> that we have the failed opcode(s)? Again, there is never any >>>> corruption >>>> on these drives, so it is more of an annoyance than anything else. >>> >>> Nothing strikes me so far other than the data not making sense. Possibly >>> it will become clearer later if/when we see other examples. >> >> For me it's SMART related. >> >> smartctl -data -o on /dev/sda reliably gets a similar message. >> Justin - does this smartctl command trigger a message for you? >> >> I've been mailing on and off since January-ish. >> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&w=2&r=7&s=libpata&q=b) >> >> Back in March I was running 2.6.16 (with a different version of Mark's >> opcode patch) and I sent an email with the following info: >> > Unfortunately not, the correct patch you need is attached to get the > ata_op code, against 2.6.17.3. [mutter, mutter, getting a teeny bit fed up with applying the same diagnostic patch (thanks Mark) and reporting this and getting no real feedback (apart from Erik - ta - who was off base, it doesn't appear to be BIOS and here's the pair of commands :) ... Ok, added Tejun to the list since he's been doing EH for libata and this is some kind of E that needs better H] 2.6.17.3 with op-code patch smartctl -data --smart=on /dev/sda no dmesg output smartctl -data -o on /dev/sda dmesg: ata1: PIO error ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0xb0 ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0x51 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ata1: PIO error ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0xb0 ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0x51 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ata1: PIO error ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0xb0 ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0x51 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ata1: PIO error ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0xb0 ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0x51 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ata1: PIO error ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0xb0 ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0x51 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ata1: PIO error ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0xb0 ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 ata_gen_ata_desc_sense: failed ata_op=0x51 ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } David -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html