debian 4.0 hard drive problem

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On 30 Dec 2007 at 8:09, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> There is probably an automounter running or something trying to mount a 
> cdrom?
> Is your cdrom perhaps slaved to the hard drive in that machine?
> the other possibility is that your hard drive is jumpered either as slave, 
> or that you have it set as cable select on the middle of the cable.
> If using cable select the master drive goes at the end of the cable; and a 
> single drive on a cable should be jumpered as master, *not* slave.
> This goes for cdroms too.
> 
> Those ide errors mean the drive is not responding when the kernel thinks it 
> should; and will eventually cause problems.
> There are windows systems that have a single slave drive in them or one 
> mapped as cable select on the middle of the cable and they do work to a 
> fashion;
> but best to configure the hardware correctly.

Thanks Kerry

Will see if I can get someone to take a look at the hardware 
configuration.  In the mean time, any command I can give it to stop 
it trying to mount hdb:?

Interestingly, The same setup does not complain under windows xp 
or ubuntu 7.10.  

The hard drives are plugged in to a caddy and I have 3 drives only 
one present at any time.


> 
> Regards, Kerry.
> 
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> > All,
> >
> > Not found anything on this using google so am trying the list.
> >
> > The debian box has 1 hard drive.  Can't remember what I did with
> > the partitions during the install.
> >
> > System appears to be working but every few minutes I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > hdb: status error: status=0xd8 Busy ide failed opcode was unknown
> > hdb: DNA disabled
> > hdb: ATAPI resetcomplete
> > hdb: request sense failure status =0x51  Drive Ready Seek
> > Complete error
> > hdb: request sense failure error=0x04 Aborted Command
> >
> > I thought that hdb would be a second drive but as I only have 1 in
> > the machine seems strange.
> >
> > Also, sounds rather drastic but still seems to boot and work if the
> > errors are ignored.
> >
> > No other os on the machine.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
> >
> >
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