[plug] server failing with bizarre disk errors

Brad Campbell brad at seme.com.au
Wed Apr 9 17:00:39 WST 2003


Craig Ringer wrote:
> Full error message (*sigh*):
> 
> hdb: status error: status=0x10 { SeekComplete }
> hdb: drive not ready for command
> 
> which can be from hda or hdb.
> 
> I'll get a panic next time.

It goes against every logical bone in my body to say this, but change 
the cable.
<Insert ramble about similar but different experience here>

I also had similar problems with a drive that was developing bad 
sectors. I figure it had exceeded the number it could remap and was 
starting to get flaky. Worse still, it was my swap partition.

That was a bugger to track down.

-- 
Brad....
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