Debian :: Hda: Drive Not Ready For Command Using HAL On Lenny
Feb 19, 2010
Recently we started getting these errors in syslog:
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[31944.813993] hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
[31944.813993] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[31944.813993] hda: drive not ready for command
[31949.822516] hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
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Also the machine was under very high load and almost impossible to connect to.
I've searched, and found mostly answers involving broken hard disks or other hardware issues, but this is unlikely to be the case here: it started happening on several machines at the same time. They are HP DL580G5, and hda is the DVD player. It's not being used. The only thing we've recently changed is that we installed HAL (as a dependency of pcscd), and sure enough, killing HAL freed up the cpu and stopped the stream of errors. Sadly, pcscd requires HAL..
Has anyone seen this? Are there known problems with HAL in Lenny on HP hardware? I know I could do hal-disable-polling /dev/hda but I don't want to simply ignore a potential problem.
EDIT: versions used are HAL 0.5.11-8, pcscd 1.4.102-1 and kernel 2.6.26.2-amd64
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The HDD was partitioned into 3 primary, 1 extended, and a swap.
I have lost total access to the drive. Nothing will report anything except the error as in post subject:
hda: drive not ready for command.
fdisk, e2fsck, badblocks, all give this error message plus a lot of other messages such as:
ide0: reset: success
hda: status timeout: status= 0xd1 (busy)
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda)sector 0
ONLY thing that shows anything is:
cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
3 0 19938240 hda
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Code:
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