kernel hdd error msg

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:36, Adam Voigt wrote:
> I've been getting these on a couple of my older boxes I use for testing,
> it's quite annoying when your on the console. Any way to silence these
> errors?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 10:16, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 06:48, david walcroft wrote:
> > > Is this error saying the disks are dying.
> > > 
> > > Feb 24 16:03:50 reddwarf kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { 
> > > DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > > 
> > > Feb 24 16:03:50 reddwarf kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { 
> > > DriveStatusError }
> > > 
> > > Feb 24 16:14:50 reddwarf kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { 
> > > DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > > 
> > > Feb 24 16:14:50 reddwarf kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { 
> > > DriveStatusError }
> > 
> > harmless.
> > 51/04 is the drive saying Eh? in response to the kernel
> > asking if it supports a certain ata command.  It's not uncommon to
> > see these with older drives.

they are largely useless in this case, and cause more panic than
anything else. I'll have a word with the IDE bod.

	Dave