On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:27:21AM -0700, Erick Calder wrote: > hi everyone, I've read a number of dialogues on the archives concerning the > errors below which I'm getting but have not found any answers: > > I'm running RedHat 7.0 (2.4.9 kernel + LVM 1.0.1rc1) on a little PIII box > and I'm using the ide controllers built into the motherboard (drivers built > into the kernel - not modules). I have CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE set to y > in the .config for the kernel. The drive is an IBM-DTLA-307030 (as reported > by /proc/ide) and is brand new. > > here are the errors: > > Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { > DriveStatusError } > Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady > SeekComplete DataRequest Error } > Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 { > DriveStatusError } > Oct 17 02:00:34 beowulf kernel: ide1: reset: success > > I've been moving data in and out of the drive and everything seems ok but I > get lots of the above errors which leaves me with a queasy feeling... > anyone know what the deal is with this? I'm afraid they look a lot like hardware errors to me. It might just be that it doesn't like MULTI_MODE though. I'm not an IDE expert. patrick