[wplug] help interperting errors in messages log

[squeegy-wplug at squeegy.org]

It is a hard drive.  an old 2gb drive.  I am running the latest Red Hat 8.0 kernel.  right now only /boot and swap are on this drive.  I couldn't put /boot on the newer drive without re-partitioning it and losing everything.  I tried to just put the files in a directory /boot, but it wouldn't boot due toi the 1023 limit for lilo.

> squeegy-wplug at squeegy.org wrote:
> <snip>
> > I get only at boot up the following error on another drive on
> > the same system. What does this one mean and is it something
> > I need to be concerned about.  Thanks
> > 
> > hdc: task_no_data_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=0,
> > sector=0 
> > hdc: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > SeekComplete Error } 
> 
> 	Is this a hard drive?  The "sector not found" against sector zero
> looks like the kernel is looking for a partition table and did not find one
> - something likely to happen on a CD/DVD.  The 0x51 usually happens when an
> IDE option / command is issued that the drive doesn't understand (new drive
> option against old drive).  I'm no expert, but if it's working I think that
> you can safely ignore these errors...
> 	You might be able to tweak some options in/with hdparm (in Red Hat
> see file /etc/syconfig/harddisks) , or if it is a CD/DVD pass some boot time
> kernel option like hdc=cdrom (or whatever the correct syntax is).
> 
> 	Per chance are you on some oddball (development / patched) kernel or
> fringe distro?  If this is a "current technology" drive and you're seeing
> this kind of stuff you may want to ping the bug folks that manage that
> particular kernel.
> 
> Don
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