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jl_678
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 Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: Disk error -- Should I be concerned |
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I am running Gentoo with the 2.6 kernel. Everything is running smoothly on the machine with no problems. I current run 2 250 GB drives mirrored and have seen no RAID errors or other disk issues. I was perusing /var/log/messages and I found the error below. I grepped the logs and see that this only appeared 8 times yesterday and so it is not clear if this recurring or a one time event. That said, has anyone seen this before and have any idea what it means? Should I be concerned about this? As I mentioned, the system has been running fine. Here is the actual message:
| Code: | Dec 30 10:43:41 foo hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Dec 30 10:43:41 foo ide: failed opcode was: 0xea |
I appreciate any thoughts on this.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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jl_678,
It means the IRQ raised by the drive was not answered in a reasonable time.
Its not normally a disk problem but indicates an issue somewhere else.
Post your /proc/interrupts and hdparm /dev/hda output please.
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jl_678
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 7:52 pm Post subject: Requested commands |
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Hi,
Sorry about the delay in getting back to this. I noticed that the problem just happened 2x on 1/3/09 as well. It is odd in that it is intermittent. Here is the data that you are looking for:
| Code: | # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 414645296 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC-XT cascade
6: 2 IO-APIC-edge floppy
8: 2 IO-APIC-edge rtc
10: 13074336 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
12: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
14: 24825867 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 37 IO-APIC-edge ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 414645134
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 488397168, start = 0
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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jl_678,
I suspect its because you have This allows lower priority IRQs to be processed inside a disk interrupt.
This is generally a bad thing as it takes longer to process the disk IRQ and occasionally causes timeouts.
The kernel will revert to PIO when it becomes an issue. Thats very slow and CPU intensive.
Use hdpam to set unmaskirq to off. It was originally intended to allow serial ports to achieve rates above 9600 baud without dropped charaters.
Now, serial ports are either not used or have buffers, so the setting is not needed.
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lucapost
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same problem.
This is /var/log/messages:
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Jan 18 14:26:27 jarod hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan 18 14:26:27 jarod ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 18 14:26:27 jarod hda: drive not ready for command
Jan 18 14:26:27 jarod hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan 18 14:26:27 jarod ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 18 14:26:27 jarod hda: drive not ready for command
Jan 18 14:26:32 jarod hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Jan 18 14:26:32 jarod ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jan 18 14:26:32 jarod hda: drive not ready for command
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This is made by hald, and when I kill it, machine works normaly.
Another info:
| Code: | #> emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r7-x86_64-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_X2_Mobile_Technology_TL-50-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:05:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39
dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7
dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm gtk iconv isdnlog jpeg midi mmx mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre png pppd readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd tiff unicode vim-syntax xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev synaptics mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS |
And the problem is the same when I disable unmaskirq via hdparm:
| Code: | #> hdparm /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0 |
and with two alternate harddisk.
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lucapost
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lucapost,
emerge smartmontools and look at the drives internal error log.
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drescherjm
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| Quote: | | This is made by hald, and when I kill it, machine works normaly. |
I am having similar bad behavior when hald is running. It prevents me from using hdparm to have the drive spin down after a period of inactivity. With hald installed when I do
| Code: | | hdparm -S 243 /dev/sda |
The hard drive activity light sticks on and it appears to be having trouble accessing the disk. When hald is not started I do not have this. Also there are absolutely no errors with smart and smart tests all pass.
| Code: | [ 140.282945] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 140.282954] ata2.00: cmd e3/00:f3:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0
[ 140.282956] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 140.282961] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 140.282973] BAR5:00:02 01:7F 02:22 03:CA 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 0A:00 0B:00 0C:07 0D:00 0E:00 0F:00
[ 146.554873] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 152.226507] ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 152.226517] ata2: soft resetting link
[ 158.976976] ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0)
[ 165.001733] ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16)
[ 165.001745] ata2: soft resetting link
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This does not look like either error message. I am thinking I should open up my own post. It does only happen when hald is running though.
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