[clug] strange output from df

Tomasz Ciolek tmc at dreamcraft.com.au
Thu Jul 29 11:23:56 GMT 2004


 OUCH. that looks like a hardware failure...

 Did you try cold booting the system and seeing if that re-sets the IDE
 drive firmware?


 Tomasz


 
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:52:40PM +1000, Gough, Chris wrote:
> Strange behaviour from a Debian box (2.4.20-idepci kernel).
> 
> The following output from df seems a bit nuts
> --
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2            -579653282885         1         0  28% /
> /dev/hdb1            -2557280710065         1         0  73% /usr/SmbShare
> --
> 
> and the kernel is spewing millions of these into /var/log/messages 
> --
> Jul 29 18:24:22 myMachine kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 29 18:24:22 myMachine kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
> --
> 
> and quite a lot of these
> --
> Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb),
> sector 32
> Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
> Jul 29 16:13:57 myMachine kernel: bread in fat_access failed
> --
> 
> a recent
> # hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda
> # hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb
> may have something to do with it, but 
> # hdparm -S 0 /dev/hdb
> didn't fix it.
> 
> can someone please tell me what's going on?
> 
> Chris Gough
> 
> 
> 
> 
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