Bug 141148 - RHEL4 U2: "cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused" messages running newburn
Summary: RHEL4 U2: "cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused" messages running newburn
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-29 16:58 UTC by Stuart Hayes
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-02-17 20:43:27 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
messages file from failing system (386.92 KB, text/plain)
2004-11-29 17:01 UTC, Stuart Hayes
no flags Details
/proc/ide/hda/settings file contents (115.71 KB, image/jpeg)
2004-11-29 17:03 UTC, Stuart Hayes
no flags Details
console on failing system (154.78 KB, image/jpeg)
2004-11-29 17:04 UTC, Stuart Hayes
no flags Details

Description Stuart Hayes 2004-11-29 16:58:54 UTC
Description of problem:

System : PE2650 
BIOS : A20
H/W config : 2* 2.4 Ghz /533FSB/12GB 
memory /PERC3Di/PERC4DC/Intel1000MT/2*BCM570X/AIC-39160

While running the "newburn" system stress utility (from Cerberus), 
the following messages are flashing on console:

cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
cdrom_pc_intr, write: dev hda: flags = REQ_STARTED REQ_PC REQ_QUIET
sector 0, nr/cnr 0/0
bio 00000000, biotail 00000000, buffer 00000000, data 00000000, len
cdb: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0xd0)
cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)
(and so on...)

In spite of these messages, the CD-ROM drive is working fine. The CD 
drive was replaced with a new one to eliminate a chance of a hardware 
error.

We've also seen this message on a PE2600:

"hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x01)"
which printed several times, then this-
"hda: packet command error: status=0xd0 { Busy }"
"ide: failed opcode was 100"


It sounds like this may not happen on RHEL4 beta1.

I'll attach /var/log/messages, the console while running newburn, and 
the contents of /proc/ide/hda/settings.




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install and run "newburn" stress program
2. Watch screen for error messages
3.
  
Actual results:
we get error messages listed above

Expected results:
no error messages

Additional info:

Comment 1 Stuart Hayes 2004-11-29 17:01:16 UTC
Created attachment 107555 [details]
messages file from failing system

Comment 2 Stuart Hayes 2004-11-29 17:03:00 UTC
Created attachment 107556 [details]
/proc/ide/hda/settings file contents

Comment 3 Stuart Hayes 2004-11-29 17:04:11 UTC
Created attachment 107557 [details]
console on failing system

Comment 4 Alan Cox 2004-11-29 21:05:08 UTC
Does this occur with hal disabled ?


Comment 5 Stuart Hayes 2004-12-07 19:56:53 UTC
It turns out that this isn't easy to reproduce.  I haven't actually 
been able to reproduce this myself at all--it was just reported to me 
after a couple of failures were seen.

...What is hal, though?  And, how do I disable it?  


Comment 6 Amit Bhutani 2005-01-25 21:00:14 UTC
Changing the title to reflect the Update in which a fix for this 
issue has been committed (from RH) or being tracked for..

Comment 7 Stuart Hayes 2005-02-17 20:08:21 UTC
You can close this issue.  We have closed it from this side, as we were unable 
to reproduce it.
Thanks,
Stuart


Comment 8 Jason Baron 2005-02-17 20:43:27 UTC
thanks. closing.


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