Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
11 Jun 2003 16:48:58 +0100


On Mer, 2003-06-11 at 16:36, war wrote:
> I've searched the archives, google and so on, many questions relating to
> why the Western Digital drives go offline exist but with no answers.
>
> PROBLEM: After extended periods of time, the HDD will simply go offline.
>
> EXAMPLE LOG ENTRY:
>
> Jun 2 02:07:26 l2 kernel: hdg: dma_intr: status=0x61 { DriveReady
> DeviceFault Error }
> Jun 2 02:07:26 l2 kernel: hdg: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Jun 2 02:07:26 l2 kernel: hdg: DMA disabled

"DeviceFault" and "Error"

Those are return values I associate with device (ie hardware) faults
oddly enough 8)

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