Re: 2.5.60 "Badness in kobject_register at lib/kobject.c:152"

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 14:49, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

This is it rejecting a command at start up, thats ok. I do need to
quieten these further yet.

> hda: 31488 sectors (16 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=246/4/32, BUG <=============

Curious. I'll tae a look

> then, on mounting root again
> hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> hda: Write Cache FAILED Flushing!

For some reason we decided the drive support cache flush. However it
apparently doesnt

> And then these errors appear again on some disk-opoerations, e.g. when
> running lilo, doing dd if=/dev/hda, and some others (raw access?). Can
> this errors be disk-specific? (it's a SiliconTech disk, reported as
> Hitachi) I can try some others, e.g. SunDisk.
> 

I would be interested to see how they compare