harddrive error message in fedora6

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Tim wrote:
> 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.

I've never seen incorrect jumpering produce these messages. Since the OP 
has already tried with different 'good' hard drives, I would advise 
changing the cable.

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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