Bug 445034 - Unusual error messages in /var/log/messages about disk access
Summary: Unusual error messages in /var/log/messages about disk access
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hal
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-02 20:34 UTC by Harold Pritchett
Modified: 2013-03-06 03:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-12-07 14:16:21 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
/var/log/dmesg from the last boot of this system (33.10 KB, text/plain)
2008-05-02 20:34 UTC, Harold Pritchett
no flags Details
output of lspci -vv command (29.09 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-05-02 20:36 UTC, Harold Pritchett
no flags Details
Output of various commands about disks (4.19 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-05-02 20:49 UTC, Harold Pritchett
no flags Details

Description Harold Pritchett 2008-05-02 20:34:42 UTC
Description of problem:  THe following messages keep appearing in my
/var/log/messages file:

kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
kernel: ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
kernel:          cdb 1e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
kernel:          res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
kernel: ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
kernel: ata2: soft resetting link
kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
kernel: ata2: EH complete

It occurs every few minutes, however the system may go for a while without the
error occurring.

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

Fedora core 8 - current patch level
2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 11:18:09 EDT 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Additional info:
Hardware:  intel core2 quad processor
           asus P5N-E SLI
           3 GB ddr2 ram
           6 hard drives
             4 sata WDC WD5000AAKS-0
             1 pata WDC WD1200JB-00G
             1 pata WDC WD2500AAJB-0
             1 Optiarc DVD RW A

The four sata drives are defined as a linux RAID 5 array and this array
is mounted as /raid

The 120 Gb pata drive is the Primary Master and only has swap space on
it used by this system (It also contains a complete core 6 system and can
be booted by changing the boot order in the bios.

The 250 Gb pata drive is the Primary Slave and is the boot drive containing
the fedora 8 system.

The DVD drive is the Seconday Master, and there is nothing connected to the
secondary slave port.

In searching the internet, I found some references to the firmware on the
WDC disk drives, but I am no longer able to find these references...

This doesn't seem right.  The question is "Is it a bug?"

Comment 1 Harold Pritchett 2008-05-02 20:34:42 UTC
Created attachment 304410 [details]
/var/log/dmesg from the last boot of this system

Comment 2 Harold Pritchett 2008-05-02 20:36:30 UTC
Created attachment 304411 [details]
output of lspci -vv command

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-05-02 20:47:00 UTC
hmm, ata2.00 is your DVD drive.  I wonder if its a side-effect of hal polling it.

Try running hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 and see if it goes away.


Comment 4 Harold Pritchett 2008-05-02 20:49:52 UTC
Created attachment 304417 [details]
Output of various commands about disks

Comment 5 Harold Pritchett 2008-05-03 00:46:38 UTC
I ran the command below:  

[root@mickey log]# hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0
Following symlink from /dev/scd0 to /dev/sr0.
Polling for drive /dev/scd0 have been disabled. The fdi file written was
  /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_DVD_RW_AD_7190A.fdi

We'll see if this causes the errors to go away.  I assume that the xml file
which was written above will permanently disable this polling.



Comment 6 Alan Cox 2008-06-09 15:44:26 UTC
Any news ?


Comment 7 Harold Pritchett 2008-06-09 20:07:20 UTC
I disabled polling on the DVD drive and the error message went away...

Please close this...

Comment 8 Alan Cox 2008-06-09 21:07:07 UTC
I'll reassign it to the HAL people first, see if they can make use of it


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Comment 10 Harold Pritchett 2008-12-07 14:16:21 UTC
This can be closed.  I no longer have the system referenced, so there is no way I can test this with a newer release.


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