----- Original Message ----- From: "Alvin Oga" <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com> To: "Jean-Rene Cormier" <jean-rene.cormier@cipanb.ca> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 9:08 PM Subject: Re: Software RAID1 problems > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Jean-Rene Cormier wrote: > > > Yes that was a typo sorry. I did reformat /dev/md0 and a when it started > > formating it gave me those errors again. I did a little searching and the > > problem is not in the raid array, but I'm still not sure what is causing the > > problem. The error was: > > > > hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > > hde: drive not ready for command > > hde: status timeout: status=0xf0 { Busy } > > hde: drive not ready for command > > ide2: reset: success > > make sure you have the same speed disks on the same ide cable > - best to use only one ide drive per cable > - do NOT mix ata-33 w/ ata-66 w/ ata-100 w/ ata-133 on the same > cable Both drives are new 60Gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 on separate IDE channels on a Promise Ultra TX2 IDE card > use better and SHORTER ide cables ?? ( should be 80 conductor ) I did switch the cable on the drives to see if it would make a difference and it's still the same drive who gave me those errors so I guess it's not the cables. > make sure you do NOT have kinks in the ide cable ( keep it straight ) > > make sure your kernel has the ide chipset support enabled for your > motherboard I noticed yesterday that my kernel didn't have IDE support for the Promise Ultra compiled in so I recompiled the kernel with it. I'll put the drive back in the computer and try it again to see if it works better > -- otherwise... you have a failing or dead disk drive... > -- if its an ibm deskstar... get rid of it... I'll try this drive in another computer to see what it'll say. Thanks Jean-Rene Cormier - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html