Messages in this thread |  | | From | Steven Joerger <> | Subject | Re: ide drive problem? | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:55:59 -0400 |
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David,
Thanks for the insight. I am using an 80 pin cable, but the length and quality are of course suspect. I will swap this out and see if it helps.
Thanks again, Steven Joerger
On Friday 28 September 2001 01:44 am, David Grant wrote: > I think the standard response people would give you is that your IDE cable > is too long, of bad quality, or you are using a 40-pin cable instead of an > 80-pin cable (although I'm pretty sure that should have been detected, and > DMA should automatically have not been used, but I heard at one point that > the code which detected this on motherboards using the vt82c686b chip > didn't really work in some cases). > > That's the standard answer, but I used to get this messages on my machine > as well (I think it was back when I was trying to use my VIA chipset with > Redhat 7.1). I don't seem to get them anymore though, but maybe that's > just because I'm trying to install distros newer than Redhat 7.1. That > makes me think that I never had CRC errors, it was just some buggy VIA > code. > > I just get the dma timeout errors now with my VIA IDE controller. I also > get them with the Promise controller (sigh...). > > David Grant > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Joerger" <steven@spock.2y.net> > To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 9:02 PM > Subject: ide drive problem? > > > List, > > > > When I enable support for my chipset in the kernel (via kt133) I always > > get > > > these messages: > > > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > > > over and over and .... > > > > Any clues to whats going on? > > > > Thanks, > > Steven Joerger > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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