From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261433AbTIKSUk (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:20:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261438AbTIKSUk (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:20:40 -0400 Received: from outbound02.telus.net ([199.185.220.221]:63693 "EHLO priv-edtnes10-hme0.telusplanet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261433AbTIKSUi (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:20:38 -0400 Message-ID: <001601c37891$660cc5d0$5d74ad8e@hyperwolf> From: "Eric Bickle" To: Subject: Re: Problem: IDE data corruption with VIA chipsets on2.4.20-19.8+others Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:20:36 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=150637065, > > sector=150636992 > > This is a physical failure from the hard disk *NOT* a Linux problem That's exactially what I thought when I first saw the problem as well. However, we had about 16-20 different drives show up with the problem, about 3 different brands too. I did some low-level tests on the drives that linux had an error on and none of my diagnostic tools could find any problems. Any ideas? Thanks. -Eric Bickle