Hi All! On a number of freshly installed SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 systems were are regularly getting messsages like this: Dec 14 08:58:30 c1-srv-01 kernel: hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 14 08:58:30 c1-srv-01 kernel: hda: packet command error: error=0x54 I googled and found at least one place that said this was normal and to ignore it. However, these entries are triggering our monitoring sofware (HP OpenView). It would be fairly easy to filter these out, but I am concerned about simply "sweeping it under the rug." In our case all of the HDs are SCSI, so these errors are obviously just going to come from the CD drive. As far as what I found through goolge this cause by the "automount" mechanisms of subfs. This can easily be deactivated by changing the appropriate entries in /etc/fstab. Since these are all server machines, we are probably not going to be using the CD drive once the system goes live, so this mechanism does not have any real value. Instead, it produces annoying messages. So, is the biggest question is whether I have intepreted the problem correctly and if chainging fstab is the correct solution. Regards, Jim Mohr
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 3:03 am, Mohr James wrote:
Hi All!
On a number of freshly installed SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 systems were are regularly getting messsages like this:
Dec 14 08:58:30 c1-srv-01 kernel: hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 14 08:58:30 c1-srv-01 kernel: hda: packet command error: error=0x54
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So, is the biggest question is whether I have intepreted the problem correctly and if chainging fstab is the correct solution.
Jim Mohr
Yes. The easiest fix is the fstab changes to remove subfs for whichever devices you don't want it running on. Especially on servers subfs would be unnecessary once they are in production. One less process on a server is always good. Stan
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