Ext3 users - Apr 2002 - ext3 filesystem error message - need an interpretation

Hi, I'm having some serious problems diagnosing a hardware issue in my linux
system.

The following error occurs intermittently. I have replaced hard drives and it is
still occurring. I'm trying to determine if it's a device conflict, a
problem with the motherboard or something else. Can anyone help?

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} 
hda: dma_intr: 0x40 {Uncorrectable Error}, LBA sect = 32405, sector=32328 
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda) sector 32405 
(this repeats for a whole lot of sectors...) 

The above error terminates with 
invalidate: busy buffer 

Then a kernel panic, then the following message 

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 

Cheers
Simon

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Simon Harford wrote:
> Hi, I'm having some serious problems diagnosing a hardware issue in my
linux system.
>
> The following error occurs intermittently. I have replaced hard drives
> and it is still occurring. I'm trying to determine if it's a device
> conflict, a problem with the motherboard or something else. Can anyone
> help?
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hda: dma_intr: 0x40 {Uncorrectable Error}, LBA sect = 32405, sector=32328
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda) sector 32405
> (this repeats for a whole lot of sectors...)
Seems like a broken drive to me, can you try disabling udma and/or run a
badblocks scan on the drive?

best regards, michael

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:43:47AM +1000, Simon Harford
wrote:
> 
> The following error occurs intermittently. I have replaced hard drives and
it is still occurring. I'm trying to determine if it's a device
conflict, a problem with the motherboard or something else. Can anyone help?
> 
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} 
> hda: dma_intr: 0x40 {Uncorrectable Error}, LBA sect = 32405, sector=32328 
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda) sector 32405 
> (this repeats for a whole lot of sectors...) 
That is a drive error.
> The above error terminates with 
> invalidate: busy buffer 
That messages is usually benign.
> Then a kernel panic, then the following message 
What is the panic?  We can't diagnose that by telepathy!  The kernel
_should_ be able to survive the IO errors coming from the drive.

Cheers,
 Stephen