kernel hdd error msg

[Adam Voigt]

I've been getting these on a couple of my older boxes I use for testing,
it's quite annoying when your on the console. Any way to silence these
errors?


On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 10:16, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 06:48, david walcroft wrote:
> > Is this error saying the disks are dying.
> > 
> > Feb 24 16:03:50 reddwarf kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { 
> > DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > 
> > Feb 24 16:03:50 reddwarf kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { 
> > DriveStatusError }
> > 
> > Feb 24 16:14:50 reddwarf kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { 
> > DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > 
> > Feb 24 16:14:50 reddwarf kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { 
> > DriveStatusError }
> 
> harmless.
> 51/04 is the drive saying Eh? in response to the kernel
> asking if it supports a certain ata command.  It's not uncommon to
> see these with older drives.
> 
> 	Dave
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Adam Voigt
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