[PATCH] Re: IDE error on 2.4.17

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Feb 27, 2002 at 10:47:35AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> That won't help, this indeed is a media error. The drive is heading to
> hell. You have about another six months of life before it goes belly up
> completely.
> 
> Any chance it's one of those fast IBM 30 or 45 gig drives? They seem to
> be dying pretty fast ...

I expect a patch like this would help avoid these sort of
questions...

diff -urN linux/drivers/ide.orig/hd.c linux/drivers/ide/hd.c
--- linux/drivers/ide.orig/hd.c	Mon Oct 15 14:27:42 2001
+++ linux/drivers/ide/hd.c	Wed Feb 27 03:16:16 2002
@@ -201,6 +201,12 @@
 				printk(", sector=%ld", CURRENT->sector);
 		}
 		printk("\n");
+		/* Make sure people realize that very bad things are
+		 * happening, so they can do something about it before
+		 * it is too late... */
+		if (hd_error & ECC_ERR) {
+		    printk("hd%c: You should make a backup, this drive may fail soon!\n", devc);
+		}
 	}
 #else
 	printk("hd%c: %s: status=0x%02x.\n", devc, msg, stat & 0xff);
@@ -209,6 +215,9 @@
 	} else {
 		hd_error = inb(HD_ERROR);
 		printk("hd%c: %s: error=0x%02x.\n", devc, msg, hd_error & 0xff);
+		if (hd_error & ECC_ERR) {
+		    printk("hd%c: You should make a backup, this drive may fail soon!\n", devc);
+		}
 	}
 #endif	/* verbose errors */
 	restore_flags (flags);
diff -urN linux/drivers/ide.orig/ide.c linux/drivers/ide/ide.c
--- linux/drivers/ide.orig/ide.c	Fri Feb 22 16:20:13 2002
+++ linux/drivers/ide/ide.c	Wed Feb 27 03:20:12 2002
@@ -832,6 +832,13 @@
 				if (HWGROUP(drive) && HWGROUP(drive)->rq)
 					printk(", sector=%ld", HWGROUP(drive)->rq->sector);
 			}
+			if (hd_error & ECC_ERR) {
+			    printk("\nhd%c: You should make a backup, this drive may fail soon!", devc);
+			}
+		}
+#else
+		if (drive->media == ide_disk && hd_error & ECC_ERR) {
+		    printk("\nhd%c: You should make a backup, this drive may fail soon!", devc);
 		}
 #endif	/* FANCY_STATUS_DUMPS */
 		printk("\n");
 -Erik

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