Kernel error on CD-RW/DVD ROM

[Jason Wozniak]

These look familiar.  I want to say they went away after disabling a
setting for a virtual cdrom in the BIOS, but honestly I can't be sure.
Thought I'd mention it, because I know I have seen them before, and if
I'm right it would be a simple fix, but we upgraded a while ago, and I
gave that box to our windows admins to add to the citrix farm, so I
can't verify it.

 

Jason

 

From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of
christian.peper at kpn.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:08 AM
To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
Subject: RE: Kernel error on CD-RW/DVD ROM

 

We have been getting the same errors. No idea what's causing it either
and unable to solve it.

As with you, these are busy servers too. Either production or heavy
testing.

 

I've tried to list my problems on my blog. Dell mentioned a DMA setting
but it didn't make a difference.

http://breakablelinux.blogspot.com/2008/12/irq-timeout-and-busy-message-
for-cd-rom.html

 

Chris.

	 

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	From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Clark, Patti
	Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:20 PM
	To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
	Subject: Kernel error on CD-RW/DVD ROM

	I have a 2950 running RHEL4.7 that has been getting the
following errors in its logs.  They had been rather infrequent - every
3-6 months, but have been occuring more often lately and are now daily.
/dev/hda is my CD-RW/DVD ROM drive and is not in use when these messages
are generated.

	Apr  9 10:18:18 servera kernel: hda: status error: status=0x50 {
DriveReady SeekComplete } 
	Apr  9 10:18:18 servera kernel: hda: status error: error=0x00 
	Apr 10 23:31:02 servera kernel: hda: status error: status=0x50 {
DriveReady SeekComplete } 
	Apr 10 23:31:02 servera kernel: hda: status error: error=0x00 

	I've searched the net several times, but have not found anything
similar enough to give me an idea as to how to address this issue or
what level of concern to give it.  We don't use OMSA and generally don't
upgrade firmware unless necessary.  The server also has a Perc 5/i
controller for the internal SAS drives, RAID 5 configuration.  It is a
busy production server.  I'm looking for any idea that will help me
trouble-shoot this.

	TIA, 
	Patti Clark - RHCT, GSEC 
	Sr. Linux/UNIX System Administrator 
	Office of Scientific and Technical Information 

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