set_drive_speed_status error?

[Scott Lawrence_1]

I'm running RedHat ES 3.0 (2.4.21-9.0.1.ELsmp) on a Proliant DL380 with 2 3Ghz processors. I have 4 72.8G 10K Ultra320 SCSI drives configured as a RAID5 array (3 drives as a single volume, 1 hot standby).

My daily logwatch mail has this in it for the last couple of days:

hda: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04
hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

is this something I should be concerned with?

[Claudio Cilloni]

... it sounds me weird that your SCSI disk is named 'hda'... it should be 'sda'. Are your sure that message refers the SCSI array? Could it be an IDE harddisk of the cd-rom drive?

Ciao
Claudio

[Claudio Cilloni]

... OR the cd-rom drive?

sorry :-)

[Scott Lawrence_1]

Ah.. I hadn't thought of that - yes, it's probably the cdrom drive (and of no consequence). Thanks.

I'll be moving this server off site soon and want to know it's at least starting off as a stable system...

[Mark Grant]

I think it's the cdrw. Setting the drive speed would seem the indicator here.

It might be a loose cable or perhaps the drive slightly dodgy or maybe you have a CD in it that it doesn't like.

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

these messages aren't related to your SCSI drives, so don't worry.

There is some problem with your CD drive and/or CD disk itself.

Try to insert/mount CDROM and copy whole CD to hardisk, check dmesg and /var/log/messages after that - probably you will see some lines about hda.

In short - in the good case it's just a dirty CD disk

[Robert Binkhorst]

Hi,

This could be related to DMA issues, have a look at this page (even though it was written for an older version it should still be applicable):
http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/rhl71dma/

HTH

Robert