Hardware :: Hda: Drive Not Ready For Command?
Jan 16, 2011
This is on an old desktop system (1999-ish)with a 20Gb hard drive on which I had installed Linux distro. called BasicLinux 3.0.
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
Related (?) occurrance:
System did boot from CD into PuppyLinux once, but now will not boot into any Distro., but does "start" to boot, ie, first screen of distro. and then nothing, system hangs.
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Feb 19, 2010
Recently we started getting these errors in syslog:
Code:
[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 }
[Code]....
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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Jun 11, 2010
I tried to upgrade to the newest ubuntu version (10.04 I think). Now I can't even boot my computer. After the initial "boot" stuff, the ubuntu screen comes on and then locks up in the process. I get the message "The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait; or press s to skip mounting or M for manual recovery."I've tried "waiting" overnight to no avail. I tried the "S" command to skip and got the message "[141.233783] Adding 1502036k Swap on /dev/sdb5. Priority-1 extents:1 across:1502036k"
I think the manual recovery is what I need to do. When I type the "M" for manual recovery I get a maintenance shell with the last line being.Can anyone please give me some commands to fix this problem? I have an OLD ubuntu boot disk. How can I get my computer to boot from it? I tried hitting "esc" while booting up to no avail. I also tried hitting F1 while booting up. I think that used to allow me to boot from the CD drive...but doesn't work now.
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Oct 15, 2010
On a cold start-up or after some package installations on re-start I get this message:
"The disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present".
My disk partitions are:
Swap - 4 gig
/ - 25 gig
/home - remainder of 120 gig drive. about 96 gig
Last error: Installed the numlockx package and made the modification to .../init/Default.
Error on Cold start this AM.
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May 3, 2011
I upgraded my computer from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 and now the OS doesn't boot correctly. I keep getting the same error msg after selecting Ubuntu from the grub: 'The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present.' Underneath that line is the other msg: 'Continue to wait; press S to skip or M for manual recovery.'
I tried them both and if i press S then it gives another err msg: 'The disk drive for /tmp is not ready or not present' ; 'Continue to wait; or press S to skip or M for manual recovery' now if i press S then it shows a black screen with this msg:
Code:
mountall: Plymouth command failed
mountall: Disconnected from Plymouth
How do i recover my system now... I don't want to reinstall the whole of ubuntu 11.04 but i just want the old system back or Ubuntu 11.04 back in working order. I f i continue to wait nothing happens except the screen goes black. I know theres a way through the command line but how?
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Jul 27, 2009
I installed successfully an updated Centos 5.3.However I'm receiving the following error in the terminal and I just wonder if this is a configuration issue from my side.This is the error I'm reeiving hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }hda: drive_cmd: error=0x4 { AbortedCommand }ide: failed opcode was: 0xecPlease
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Jan 25, 2011
During the boot, the following message appears:The disk drive for /media/sdb1 is not ready yet or not present Continue to wait, press S to skip or M for manual recovery. This started to appear after I use the "pysdm" application.
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Jan 29, 2011
I am trying to install 10.10 from a Live CD over my 9.04 (it would not do the upgrade automatically due to apparently lack of disk space.) at the end of the my best guess at the process (alas, Linux is pretty much a plug and pray operation for me.), on rebooting, I get the message: "the disk drive for / is not ready yet or not yet present" I must have messed up at the Allocate Drive SPace / Edit Partition step. I have three existing partitions:
7Gb for OS previously 9.04
35GB for data (which I clearly don't want to mess with)
a a bit for Swap.
So, I have clicked on the 7GB partition /dev/sda1 and have another window, Edit Partition, which is asking me: New partition size (I would just leave it at 7007) Use As (I presume I can leave it as EXT4?) Format the Partition (NO unchecked?)and Mount Point? Now here is where I don't have a clue. The pull down options are:
/, /home, /boot, /tmp, /usr, /var, etc.
not knowing any better, my first time through I just picked "/" and that is what got me to the message "the disk drive for / is not ready yet or not yet present" So what should I be specifying at this point?
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Mar 17, 2010
I just installed Debian onto a PowerPC G4 Tower with two hard drives. I left OS X on one of the drives and reformatted and installed Debian on the other, using the installer from the 60Mb ISO from the Debian website.
The installation had no issues and it starts yaboot and Debian no problem.
After about 2 minutes of the booting up process, it starts to output this, every five seconds:
While this happens, other things still continue load and it outputs occasional messages and even gets to "Debian Login:" where if you type really quickly and hit enter, it takes it and prompts for "Password:" right after the next round of the above messages.
I have not been able to completely log in yet.
I can start up into the shell as root with "Linux single" with no problems.
I think this might have something to do with the second Mac OS Formatted Hard drive. I have considered unplugging that drive and testing it that way, but I am looking for a solution to turn off whatever script is running that every five seconds and failing, regardless of what it is trying to do.
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May 6, 2011
I've tried to use that thread to help but to no avail, i tried to use this:
[URL]
BUT I CAN'T OPEN A TERMINAL!!! as i am at a point where the screen says: Continue to wait, press S to skip or M for manual recovery. so if i run this command : gksudo gedit /etc/fstab my computer whines about there being no way to show this on the screen, I have tried this:
Use a non-graphical editor, like emacs or vi. Try Ctl+Alt+F3 -- you should get a login prompt. Login to an account with admin privileges (like, the first account you created, for example), and then type 'sudo vi /etc/fstab'; that will open /etc/fstab in the vi editor. Make your changes, save them, exit the editor, reboot... but if you're not used to working with a non-graphics-based editor, you'll have a bit of research to do. It's not hard, though, just tedious.however i have not managed to make it work.
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Oct 15, 2010
On rebooting or initial start up intermittent problem:"The disk drive for /home is ready yet or not present." It seems to happen on a cold startup and if a change is made in init/default file. (addition of the numlockx package modifcation.) So far a second or third restart will find the directory and complete the start-up.
On a 120 gig hard drive I have these partitions:
4 gig swap
25 gig /
90+ gig (the remaining space) /home
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Jun 5, 2011
Due to complications, the laptop running Ubuntu had a hard reset during the 11.04 update. Now when I try to turn on the machine, I'm met with: "The disc drive for / is not ready yet or not present Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery" Anyone with a similar experience or the technical knowledge able to help with this?
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May 12, 2011
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Is there a command to measure the time a file takes to transfer from HD to usb pen? (not using dd).
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After upgrading to karmic, it no longer works. I get this error:
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Here's what I have in /dev:
Code:
adsp cpu_dma_latency hpet loop6 null pts ram3 rtc0 shm tty1 tty19 tty28 tty37 tty46 tty55 tty7 usbmon0 vcs7 vcsa8
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[Code].....
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Code:
ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/drive
Or
Code:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/drive
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May 16, 2011
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2 - Are there significant performance gains over ext4 and is it stable? If not now, will it be in the future?
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5 - Does compressing the root filesystem save a significant amount of disc space?
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Jan 30, 2011
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Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
[code]....
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Feb 1, 2011
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Mar 14, 2011
I have a music server running on Ubuntu10.04.
The mainboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P [URL].
Problem #1: Approx. four out of five times my dvd-rw is not available to the system. If I wish to burn a cdrom, the computer has to be restarted three or four times before the dvd-rw is available. But then it always works without a flaw.
Problem #2: This morning after booting, the system started and displayed a message: "Disk sdf is not ready for mounting, press S to skip or M to fix the problem" I pressed M and edited /etc/fstab, then continued to start-up. Then I started Disk Utility. The harddisk sdf is clearly visible: it's a Samsung HD642JJ and according to three different Smart tests the disk is healthy. But the harddisk is completely absent in the rest of the system. The blkid command does not report sdf, and 'fdisk -l' does not print anything about sdf.
As far as I have been able to test the hardware is healthy. All connections are in good condition, there are no loose connectors. So after thinking about these problems I have a suspicion towards hald and/or the enumerator. I have attached the dmesg output.
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...88#post8674988
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