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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: hda: task_no_data_intr
To: gzp@myhost.mynet (Gabor Z. Papp)
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:45:50 +0000 (GMT)
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> What mean this message at boot time?
> 
> hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

I think that they are diagnostic messages that are a result of an old
disk not supporting some new commands that are being send to it.  I
thought this was done silently in the 2.4.x series - I see it on some
really old, (100 MB) disks running 2.5.x

I _think_ you can safely ignore it, but I am CCing Alan, because he
will know for certain.

> Tried with 3 different hard disks, and got the same message
> every time.

Are they all of a similar age/capacity?

> Seems like I'm also unable to make ext3 fs on the disks.

What is the exact problem?

John.
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