[ale] IDE_SCSI error

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Wed Sep 10 18:11:33 EDT 2008


That's what my Google search indicated as well.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
Freemyer
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:55 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] IDE_SCSI error

On 9/10/08, Randy <rramsdell at livedatagroup.com> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>  > On 9/10/08, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>  >
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>  >>  I'm not a hardware expert, and I just found out I need to go
>  >>  troubleshoot tomorrow on a system ( RHEL) that is giving IDE_SCSI
>  >>  errors.. something like:
>  >>  IDE_SCSI error: expect 24 got 40
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  any clues as to what logs to look at or commands to run?
>  >>  besides fsck :)
>  >>  I'm guessing the hard drive is going bad...
>  >>
>  >
>  > First thing I would do is try to figure out what subsystem that is?
>  >
>  > Typically IDE is for traditional desktop IDE harddrives.
>  > SCSI would be for basically everything not IDE nor SATA (drives,
usb,
>  > firewire, fiber-channel)
>  >
>  > IDE_SCSI is for ???  Optical devices / CDs / DVDs ???
>  >
>  > Maybe via lsmod you can get some insight.
>  >
>  > Greg
>  >
>
> Are you sure SATA is ide and not scsi? THey show up here as sdx.

Older SATA in "compatible" mode was IDE.

Newer native SATA is libata in the error messages, etc.  (A subsystem
of SCSI for now, but I don't think you see SCSI in the logs.)

I googled IDE_SCSI and most of what I see are issues related to CD
burning.


Greg
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