On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:32:36AM +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
when booting my Suse 9.0 I get the following messages in the bootlog, that I do not knwo what to do with. The hd is just about half a year old.
What brand is your HD?
<4>reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal <4>reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode <4>reiserfs: using ordered data mode <4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,2)) ... <4>for (ide0(3,2)) <4>hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } <4>hda: cache flushing failed. disable write back cacheing for journalled file systems <4>hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } <4>hda: cache flushing failed. disable write back cacheing for journalled file systems
Please note, that the error happens just once on system boot. It never happens after, on a running system. I got the same errors on Maxtor 6Y080L0 with firmware YAR41BW0. SMART does not show any degradation of the drive. I don't see these errors on MAXTOR 6L080L4 (firmware A93.0500) and FUJITSU MPG3409AT. What's interesting, both Fujitsu and Maxtor 6L080L4 are ATA/ATAPI-5 drives, while Maxtor 6Y080L0 is ATA/ATAPI-7. I suspect this error is caused by the difference in ATAPI standards and the way reiserfs accesses the drive. So in my understanding, reserfs attmpts to use some feature on the disk, fails on it, and disables it. Regards, -Kastus