[2.5.50] IDE error messages appearing after upgrade

Hello List,

Upgrading from 2.4.19 to 2.5.50 results in getting IDE error log-messages on startup:

Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hda: JTS CORPORATION CHAMPION MODEL C2100-2A, ATA DISK drive
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hdb: ST31720A, ATA DISK drive
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hdc: ATAPI 12X DVDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hdd: CRD-8240B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hda: 4128768 sectors (2114 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=1024/64/63
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel: hdb: 3329424 sectors (1705 MB), CHS=825/64/63
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood /usr/sbin/cron[111]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs) 
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood kernel:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
Dec  6 21:00:23 brood /usr/sbin/gpm[119]: info: [/rock-linux/src/gpm-1.20.0/src/gpn.c(363)]: 
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood /usr/sbin/gpm[119]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode.
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 0
Dec  6 21:00:24 brood kernel: hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

/proc/ide/hda/model: JTS CORPORATION CHAMPION MODEL C2100-2A /proc/ide/hdb/model: ST31720A
/proc/ide/hdc/model: ATAPI 12x DVDROM /proc/ide/hdd/model: CRD-8240B

Please come up with instructions what information (out of /proc/ide) you need additionally.

--
cheers,
Tobias

Ignore these 'errors', they are really warnings - your drive doesn't recognise some commands being sent to it.

2.4.20 will also show these messages.

Not sure about these, though. I suspect that commands that only relate to disk devices are being sent to your CD-ROM drives, but somebody else will probably confirm/deny that.

John.

It is a new message which was added. They come out when anyone tries to read from a CDROM drive which is empty.

Recent KDE setups have some gizmo which polls the CDROM once per second for insertions. With recent 2.5 kernels, this results in the above message being sent to logs a couple of hundred times a minute.

The new printk needs to be removed - I have raised this with Jens and he agreed.

These are ok - its trying to set options the drive doesnt support and we dont yet do that quietly.