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dirk@loth.demon.co.uk (Steve Dodd) wrote:

>Shaw Carruthers (shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
>: Jan 31 12:14:44 shawc linux: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady 
>:  SeekComplete DataRequest Error } 
>
>We used to get this on one of our machines - up until yesterday, in fact.
>The drive incidentally was not a Western Digital. After reading your post
>I ran badblocks, and as that showed up no problems I began wondering what
>could be affecting it. After remembering that we'd had problems with a drive
>that was mounted in a removable pack under NT, I removed the drive from the
>removable pack it was in, and since then have had no errors. Strange, but
>true.

Strange, on my machine the master is in a removable tray and the slave
is fixed; but it is the slave that is showing the problem.

I think I have now cracked it. The error developed into an 0x40 error
which gives a sector number. Turned out to be a bad sector in the swap
partition. Fixed it with mkswap -c.

No errors since( now 36 hours and counting).
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