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Hi list! |
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I'm having constant troubles with Iomega REV 35GB ATAPI (so internal) |
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drives in a couple of Gentoo servers and I was hoping for some hints. |
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About the environment: |
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Kernel: gentoo-sources 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 with |
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CONFIG_UDF_FS=m |
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CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y |
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CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD=m |
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CONFIG_CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS=8 |
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CONFIG_IDE=y |
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y |
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y |
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CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y |
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y |
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Motherboard: Intel D945GNT (Pentium D) with most recent BIOS |
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Drives: 2 SATA drives (RAID-1), 2 Iomega REV 35GB ATAPI drives (firmware |
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v99b)) on the single IDE port, nothing else. |
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Both drives worked instantly for quite some time. Transfer rates could |
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have been better but since they are only used for daily backups in the |
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background I don't care that much. |
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Now where's the problem? After a couple of days one or even both drives |
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start having troubles reading inserted media and flooding the kernel log |
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with following errors: |
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Feb 1 04:26:56 srv2001 kernel: hda: media error (bad sector): |
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status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } |
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Feb 1 04:26:56 srv2001 kernel: hda: media error (bad sector): |
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error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 } |
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Feb 1 04:26:56 srv2001 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown |
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Feb 1 04:26:56 srv2001 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector |
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4607392 |
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Feb 1 04:26:56 srv2001 kernel: isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hda, |
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iso_blknum=16, block=16 |
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Feb 1 04:26:58 srv2001 kernel: UDF-fs INFO UDF 0.9.8.1 (2004/29/09) |
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Mounting volume 'REV 35', timestamp 2004/03/25 19:55 (103c) |
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Feb 2 04:27:51 srv2001 kernel: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) |
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Feb 2 04:27:51 srv2001 kernel: hdb: media error (bad sector): |
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status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } |
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Feb 2 04:27:51 srv2001 kernel: hdb: media error (bad sector): |
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error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 } |
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Feb 2 04:27:51 srv2001 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown |
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Feb 2 04:27:51 srv2001 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector |
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Feb 2 04:27:51 srv2001 kernel: isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdb, |
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iso_blknum=16, block=16 |
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This behavior seems to be totally independent from the used media. |
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Rejected media will work in another machine or even in the external USB |
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drive I attached for testing. It's even quite likely that "bad" media |
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will work the next day. And before I forget: rebooting always helps ;-) |
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What I have done so far: |
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1. Re-loading the UDF-module before mounting. Helped a little. |
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2. Used IDE-SCSI emulation. Couldn't mount the drives at all. |
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3. Compiled IDE-CD as module. Couldn't mount the drives at all. |
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4. Tried to use Packet Writing. Makes no difference since the problems |
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start with mounting. If I am able to mount a drive it'll work rock solid |
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from my experience. |
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5. Checked http://iomrrdtools.sourceforge.net/ |
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6. Checked http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-udf |
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So finally I am stuck. Any hint / advice is higly apprechiated. |
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen |
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