760 Kernel and DriveReadySeekComplete errors

[Mark Weaver]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> 
>> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>
>>> When my rather old laptop boots the 760 kernel for Fedora Core 3, I 
>>> get kernel messages similar to this (the message text is not exact):
>>>
>>> DriveReadySeekCompleteError
>>> ...
>>> failed opcode is: 100
>>>
>>> This is on a Sony Vaio PCG-F350 laptop which is rather old (we bought 
>>> it in 1998 or 1999.) I just replaced the original 6 Gb hard drive 
>>> with a new Western Digital 60 Gb drive. The BIOS recognizes the size 
>>> of the drive. I also notice that the drive activity LED stays on all 
>>> the time now.
>>>
>>> Any idea of what is happening here?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Bob Cochran
>>>
>>
>> two things are possible... either the kernel is having trouble 
>> communicating with the hard drive, or your hard drive is on it's way 
>> out and is about to crash... I would seriously consider running a 
>> slightly older kernel for a little while and see if these errors go 
>> away. If they do then its very likely that the kernel is just being 
>> weird. OTH...if the errors persist then you have a failing drive or 
>> bad controler.
>>
> I'm okay. I looked more closely. The messages are for my DVD drive hdc, 
> not my hard drive hda. And there's no CD in hdc. But the hard drive 
> activity light remains on all the time....hmmm.
> 
> Bob
> 

sounds like its constantly trying to mount the drive then and isn't able 
to since there's no disk in the drive.

-- 
Mark
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