harddrive error message in fedora6

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri May 25 02:29:31 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 11:47 -0700, ann kok wrote:
> I tried different good harddrives and also get this
> error message from dmesg
> 
> What is the problem?
> 
> hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
> Error }
> hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 

Usually indicates a bad disc, but if you've got a bad power supply or a
bad cable, you could have similar induced errors.  I don't know whether
incorrect jumpering of the drives (master/slave/etc) might cause error
messages like that, too.


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