[plug] hdd errors, on linux only

[Mike Holland]

This is an old 13GB Deskstar (not a 'deathstar' model), and the data is
safely off, but I'd like to know why it only fails under Linux. No
problems with BIOS or Windows, and passes the IBM DFT.

I was getting lots of errors, and corrupted data under Linux. After wiping
the partiton table, and installing a win98 partition, I cannot
even access it's partition table from Linux.
  Connecting it as hdb to a handy linux box, I get the following.
Anything useful there? Ideas please?
[ P.S. Just saw hda is giving a bootup error too. status=0x51
Anything important? ]

Mike.
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hda: ST36424A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DPTA-351500, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0181bc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c0181cfc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: 12594960 sectors (6449 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1024/240/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
 hdb:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 3
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 5
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 7
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 3
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 5
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 7
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483640
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483641
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483642
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483643
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483644
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483645
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483640
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483641
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483642
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483643
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483644
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2147483645
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 6
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 6
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 4
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 6
 unable to read partition table
ide: late registration of driver.