Re: 2.4.x IDE: Statis=0x58 - Drive not ready for command

[Anders Widman]

> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:54:47PM +0100, Anders Widman wrote:
>> 
>> I get lots of errors like these:
>> 
>> kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
>> kernel: hdh: drive not ready for command
>> kernel: ide3: reset: success
>> kernel: hdf: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>> kernel: hdf: drive not ready for command
>> kernel: hdh: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>> kernel: hdh: drive not ready for command
>> kernel: hdh: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>> kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
>> kernel: hdh: drive not ready for command
>> kernel: ide3: reset: success
>> 
>> * Running virtually every kernel since 2.4.17-2.4-21-x.
>> * All harddrives UDMA100.
>> * Tried with DMA and unmask IRQ off.
>> * Tried with and without ACPI, APIC and APM.
>> * Happens to all harddrives.
>> * Cabling,  power,  hardware  and drives thorowly checked and replaced
>>   for testing.
>> * Tested with one VIA KT266a motherboard and two Intel 440BX
>> * SMART values good.
>> * To all my testing I have not found any problems with the hardware.
>> * When to many of these IDE error occur the system freezes.
>> * Errors occur with the internal controller as well as the two Promise
>>   PDC20268 (U100 Tx2) controllers.
>> 
>> What  should  I do to fix this? I do not want to run Windows as I need
>> LVM to manage the diskspace. Windows does however run very stable.
>> 
>> Any tips or ideas are welcome!

> On errors you posted there are hdf & hdh. Do not you use slave-only
> configurations? You must not use slave-only with Promise. Never.
>                                                         Petr

Nope. I use 4 drives on both cards.

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