[ale] IDE_SCSI error

Randy rramsdell at livedatagroup.com
Wed Sep 10 17:16:18 EDT 2008


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.


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